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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
out to decide their fate, while the high steeples, which in the evening were clearly defined between a burning sky and the sombre profile of Fort Sumter, seemed to the Union sailors like a tempting vision which an invulnerable guardian forbade them to approach. The system of defence against naval attacks had, in fact, been completed by General Ripley with the close of the year 1862. Two batteries had been erected, so as to flank eastward and westward the half circle of sandbanks of which Moultrie occupied the most salient part: the first, named Beauregard, commanded the approaches to the open sea; the other, called Bee, flanked the fronts of Sumter north-east and north-west. The latter was much the weaker, never having been finished. Morris Island was occupied by two new works: one, in front of Sumter, at Cummings Point, which was at a later period to take the name of Battery Gregg; the other commanded a narrow strip of solid ground between the marsh and the sea; it was then a si