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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
e principal channel, and thus get rid of a task which was not only irksome, but uncertain. It was determined to sink a certain number of old ships, loaded with stones, on the bar, which would render the passage absolutely impossible. This was to apply to an enemy's port what the Russians had done for their own defence at Sebastopol; and if the experiment should prove successful, it was proposed to repeat it in front of Savannah and the other Confederate ports. Towards the middle of December twenty-five whaling-ships of from three to five hundred tons each were assembled at Port Royal. They were loaded with large blocks of stone, and their sides pierced with openings which only required to be unstopped to sink them. Sixteen of these set sail. They were escorted by a few steamers, whose purpose was to effect the submersion of these old hulks and to receive their crews. On the 17th of December the fleet appeared before Charleston. A great disaster had just struck that city: more t