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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
e rifled cannon of the left batteries were trained on the fort. Powerful calcium lights were made to blaze upon it at night, exposing every thing on the parapet, blinding the garrison to all that was going on within the Union lines, and enabling the National sharp-shooters to prevent the Confederates repairing at night the damage done to the fort by bombardment during the day, which was kept up moderately without cessation. Finally, when every thing was in readiness, the New Ironsides, Captain Rowan, moved up to within one thousand yards of the sea face See page 195. of the fort; and at the dawn of the 5th of September, his broadsides of eight guns, carrying 11-inch shells, and the land batteries, opened simultaneously upon the parapet. The garrison soon abandoned their cannon, and took refuge in the bomb-proof, upon which, for nearly forty hours, the great guns thundered without any sensible effect. When the guns of Fort Wagner were silenced, Gillmore's sappers pushed rapidl
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
ers of Fort Sumter, names of (note), 1.329. Delaware, loyal sentiment of the people of, 1.198. Devens, Gen., at the battle of Chancellorsville, 3.29. Dinwiddie Court-House, Sheridan at, 3.539. Dismal Swamp Canal, expedition under Commodore Rowan to obstruct (note), 2.315. Disunion, early threats of in the South (note), 1.63. Dix, Dorothea L., beneficent labors of, 1.575. Dix, Gen. John A., his telegram in relation to the American flag, 1.185; speech of in New York at the Un., his expedition up the Yazoo, 2.586. Ross, John, forms an alliance with Confederates, 1.476. Ross's Gap, visit of the author to in 1866, 3.179. Rousseau, Lovell H., energetic loyalty of, 2.72; at the battle of Perryville, 2.510. Rowan, Corn. S. C., in the Burnside expedition, 2.167. Ruffin, Edward, speech of in favor of secession, 1.48; first shot against Fort Sumter fired by, 1.320. Russell, William Howard, on the state of feeling in New York at the outbreak of the war, 1.