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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate defense of Fort Sumter. (search)
t of the staff remained fast in the crest of the gorge, while the splintered spar, bearing the flag, was thrown inwardly to the ground. But some slight delay arising in the planting, Lieutenant Charles H. Claibourne, of the 1st South Carolina Infantry (regulars), mounted the wall with the colors, and in full view of the enemy, and under a rapid fire, lashed the two parts of the staff together with the halyard ropes, assisted by two brave, spirited men of the Engineer Department, Sergeant Nicholas F. Devereux and Corporal B. Brannon.--J. J. It is a great mistake to suppose that Fort Sumter owed its protection mainly to the accumulation of its own debris. The bursting of a single large shell on the exterior slopes would often be attended with the absolute loss to the fort of a ton's weight of material. The waste of material from the combined effects of battering missiles, bursting shells, scattering winds, and boisterous waves was simply enormous. The excavation of the parade, c