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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
s, the roughness of which disturbed the course of the projectiles. The form and the mode of impulsion both gave rise to a great number of different systems. Mr. Parrott placed upon the base of the ball a sort of reversed cup of soft iron, in which the expansion of the gases determined the impulsion. For large calibres he substbellion, formed an important part of their field artillery. The remainder, with the exception of a few Whitworth guns, was composed of pieces constructed on the Parrott model. The materiel of heavy calibre was more varied; there were to be found all the old smooth-bore brass guns, the Dahlgren howitzers, and the rifled cannon ofg run many of them burst. The projectiles manufactured in the South for rifled guns resembled those of the Parrott model; the Confederates also frequently used Parrott projectiles, obtained from some captured ammunition train or park of artillery carried off after a victory. The Blakeley projectile, which greatly resembled them
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
government of North Carolina took possession of it at the breaking out of the rebellion, it was only occupied by a single non-commissioned officer of the regular army. The Confederates had entrusted its defence to five companies, numbering about four hundred and fifty men. On the 25th of April, in spite of the fire of the fort, which did them but little harm, the besiegers had erected their batteries at a distance of a few hundred metres from the walls; eight ten-inch mortars and three Parrott guns (hundred-pounders) opened fire; and in ten hours seventeen of the enemy's guns were dismounted, including all those that were serviceable. Out of eleven hundred projectiles, five hundred and sixty had reached the fort; the embrasures were destroyed and the magazines riddled. The garrison capitulated the next day; it had eight men killed and twenty wounded. The capture of Fort Macon gave the Federals the best access to the inland sea, and completed the land blockade of all that par