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Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: naval attack on Charleston. (search)
ed yards apart; they steered very badly if obliged to stop the engines, sheering every way, and the raft on the bow of the Weehawken delayed her, and caused wild steering along the whole line, so it was about 2.50 P. M. when she was opened on by Moultrie, followed at once by Sumter, and all of the batteries within effective range. The Weehawken was then somewhat above Fort Wagner. At about 3.05 she opened fire on Fort Sumter, followed by the other monitors, at or before they arrived at the sap, several buoys of different colors were seen; the vessels passed between them and Morris Island, but nor far from them, perhaps within one hundred and fifty yards. It was observed that the different vessels, in bringing the buoys in range with Moultrie or batteries on that shore, received in turn a heavy fire, and it was supposed probable that they marked torpedoes; they certainly served to indicate distance, and the ranges of the guns had been practically established on them, which greatly in
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
andoned their homes rather than enter into a covenant so abhorrent to their feelings. The war of the Revolution was now transferred to this section of the State. Let us recall some of its stirring scenes in this neighborhood. General Richard Winn, in whose honor this town is named, was then a major. He had served in General Richardson's expedition against the Tories the year before, and had distinguished himself under Thompson on Sullivan's Island on the famous 28th June, 1776, when Moultrie repulsed the British fleet off Charleston harbor. Colonel William Bratton, of York, was his associate, friend and adviser in all his measures opposed to the British forces. Both John McLure, of Chester, and Bratton and Winn concerted and conducted an attack in June, 1780, upon a large body of Loyalists at Mobley's meeting-house in Fairfield district, and defeated and dispersed them. A strong detachment of British troops under Colonel Turnbull was then stationed at Rocky Mount in Cheste
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Wee Nee volunteers of Williamsburg District, South Carolina, in the First (Hagood's) regiment. (search)
Captain Sellers and Company F (St. Matthew's Rifles) were with me in the salient for two nights. I had been directed to remain in there when my presence was not needed elsewhere. Both men and officers got so they could sleep under fire when permitted to take a little rest. The shells from Fort Moultrie passed directly over the salient, and as they were now timed to burst just two hundred yards beyond us, the danger of a slightly premature explosion was great, when it is remembered that Moultrie was nearly two miles away. Besides this danger, and the danger from the enemy's shot and shell, the trenches were now so near that pieces from our own mortar shells occasionally came back into the salient. September 5th, Saturday.β€”The last parallel of the enemy was now completed, and their guns and mortars behind it ready for action. In the bombardment of to-day shot and shell from seventeen siege and Cohorn mortars, and thirteen 100, 200, and 300-pound Parrott guns, all in the enemy's
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
The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
roofed, covered and lined outside with the same material, men will embark both in the gun-boats and launches; more in the latter β€” they being smaller targets β€” than in the former. Hawsers will connect the boats with the steamers, which will tow them into Charleston harbor in spite of all Morris Island and the other batteries can do to prevent them. In fact, so enthusiastic are the advocates of this plan, as to the feasibility of carrying it out, that one of them lately remarked to us that Moultrie might play away at the intruders without any more serious result arising from her amusement than the education of Southern artillerists." The New York Express says: As near as can be estimated, about two thousand men were sent from the forts of N. York in the vessels dispatched South. The troops from Texas number twenty-five hundred, and the men-of-war have at least fifteen hundred sailors and marines. This would give the United States the disposal of 6,000 well-drilled, regula
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The flag of the South.Dedicated to the defenders of Charleston harbor. The Seven-Starred Banner, unfurl to the breeze! It proudly shall float o'er the land, o'er the seas! The hands that have reared it are free from a stain. And woe to the coward that would sully its name! On the broad plains of Texas--on Florida's shore; Where dark Moultrie lists to the ocean's wild roar, The chieftain is gathering his true-hearted band, To die in the cause of their dear native land! When the sons of the South, in that terrible day, Shall meet the stern foemen in battle array. This flag o'er the dark field shall gloriously stream. And Victory illume its bright folds with her beam. On blue mountain tops β€” in the valleys below-- While Southern hearts throb, or there still lives a foe, We'll throw it abroad to the Heaven's free air, And brave hearts beneath it shall never despair! No! never despair; for its course shall be, on! Outstripping the eagle's, and bright as t
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident. (search)
The history of naval attacks on our own forts in the wars of the Revolution and of 1812 teaches us the same lesson. In 1776 Sir Peter Parker, with nine vessels, carrying two hundred and seventy guns, was repulsed by Fort Moultrie, armed with only twenty-six guns, and garrisoned by three hundred and seventy-five regulars and a few militia. The British were entirely defeated, and lost, in killed and wounded, two hundred and five men, while the same loss in the forts was only thirty-two General Moultrie said that only thirty rounds from the battery were fired, and the want of powder alone prevented the Americans from destroying the whole fleet. In 1814 Fort Boyer, a small redoubt near Mobile, garrisoned by one hundred and twenty men, and having twenty small pieces of cannon, some of them almost entirely useless, completely repulsed a British fleet of four vessels, carrying ninety-two guns, and five hundred and ninety men, aided by a land force of twenty artillerists with two cannon an
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
for the purpose expressed. The world-knows that I have never sent any reinforcements to the forts in Charleston harbor, and I have certainly never authorized any change to be made in their relative military status. Bearing upon this subject, I refer you to an order issued by the Secretary of War, on the 11th inst., to Maj. Anderson, but not brought to my notice until the 21st inst. It is as follows: Memorandum of the Verbal Instructions to Major Anderson, 1st Artillery, Commanding Fort Moultrie, South Carolina: "You are aware of the great anxiety of the Secretary of War that a collision of the troops with the people of this State shall be avoided, and of his studied determination to pursue a course with reference to the military force and forts in this harbor which shall guard against such a collision He has, therefore, carefully abstained from increasing the force at this point, or taking any measures which might add to the present excited state of the public mind o
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
power of those in charge has been made to secure the success of the enterprise, and anxious interest increases every hour.--Every light has been extinguished; even our state-rooms are in utter darkness, and in the cabin we have only one lantern, by the dim light of which one of the officers has this evening been reading the Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, for the entertainment of his companions." The provisions have been brought up from below, and placed in the cabin and on deck. If Moultrie disables us, the captain is determined to run the vessel aground as near Fort Sumter as possible; then the boats, which are all in readiness, will be instantly lowered, and the men conveyed to Fort Sumter as rapidly as possible. It is hoped, also, that by bringing the provisions up, much of them may be conveyed to Major Anderson. We have six boats, capable of holding ninety men. They have all been overhauled since we left New York, and are in perfect order. Arrangements have been made fo
The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The value and Necessity of sea-coast Defences. (search)
egulars, and a few militia. In this contest the British were entirely defeated, and lost, in killed and wounded two hundred and five men, while their whole two hundred and seventy guns killed and wounded only thirty-two men in the fort. Of this trial of strength, which was certainly a fair one, Cooper, in his Naval History says: "It goes fully to prove the important military proposition, that ships cannot withstand forts, when the latter are properly armed, constructed and garrisoned." Gen. Moultrie says only thirty rounds from the battery were fired, and was of opinion that the want of powder alone prevented the Americans from destroying the men-of-war. In 1814, a British fleet of four vessels, carrying ninety-two guns, attacked Fort Boyer, a small redoubt, located on a point of land commanding the passage from the Gulf into the Bay of Mobile. This redoubt was garrisoned by only one hundred and twenty combatants, officers included; and its armament was but twenty small pieces
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