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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
across the swamp. Wooden cylinders, thick enough to leave free play to the trunnions, were placed around the breech and the muzzle, and enabled the men to roll the piece like a barrel on two board tracks prepared for that purpose. This piece, the mounting of which had been so arduous, was called by the soldiers The Swamp Angel. A false battery was made of reeds, a short distance from there, to deceive the enemy and draw its fire. The second parallel, established on the 26th of July four hundred and sixty-six yards in front of the first, was distant eight hundred and forty-five yards from Fort Wagner and less than two hundred and sixteen from the rifle-pits occupied by the hostile sharpshooters. While this work was being completed the first had been armed with four pieces of large calibre: five other pieces had been placed more to the left in batteries specially directed against Fort Sumter, amid sandhills about forty-two hundred yards from the fort. Among these pieces there w