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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
to allow the fleet to pass without having to fear their fire. Gillmore, who had availed himself of this time to repair Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg, and who had armed them with the most powerful among his Parrott guns, opened fire on the 26th of October. The monitors joined themselves to the land-batteries to cannonade the silent ruins against which the Federals had been working for a long time. Other sections of wall tumbled down, other vaults were laid bare; the large fifteen-inch howite Bayou Teche, near Brashear City. It was, in fact, necessary that they should be ready to embark at this point if Banks, who accompanied Dana's expedition, summoned them to the coast of Texas. The latter was at last able to sail on the 26th of October. Franklin, notified beforehand, had recalled the detachments sent in the direction of Alexandria, and by the 27th he had sent Lawler's division on to New Iberia. On the 1st of November he left the vicinity of Opelousas with the remainder o