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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 58 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 44 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 14 2 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 12 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 7 1 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 6 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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the iron-covered battery, at Cummings' Point, like marbles thrown by a child on the back of a turtle. The upper portion of the Southwest wall of Fort Sumter shows plainly the effect of the terrible cannonade from the formidable product of Mr. C. H. Stevens' patriotism and ingenuity. A half an hour later the gladsome tidings came that Stevens' Battery was fast damaging the Southwest wall of Sumter. Henry Buist is doing gallant service with the Palmetto Guards, delighting all hearts buse of the South, has the honor of dismounting two of its parapet guns by a single shot from one of the Columbiads, which, at the time, he had the office of directing. The famous iron batteries — the one at Cummings' Point — named for Mr. C. H. Stevens, the inventor, and the celebrated Floating Battery, constructed under the direction of Capt. Hamilton, have fully vindicated the correctness of their conception. Shot after shot fell upon them and glanced harmless away, while from their fa
e white volume of smoke rise at the Iron Battery the very earth shakes — it is Stevens' 10 inch Columbiad. There is another flash, and presently the report and the o'clock arrives.--He remains silent. They are pouring into him from Johnson, Stevens, the Howitzer Battery, Moultrie, the Floater, and two Mortar Batteries. A heand him. All the batteries are now fairly playing into him, and he playing upon Stevens', on the south, and Moultrie and the Floater on the northeast. "There goes SteStevens'," exclaims one--the earth trembles again. That is a terrible gun. All is now enveloped in smoke, and the glass aids me not. A little interregnum, and thereach in Sumter. Another dispatch, at 1 o'clock, from Morris' Island--two of Stevens. guns, under the Iron Battery, silenced; but all will be repaired in two hours, and a large breach in Sumter, and the Howitzer Battery and Stevens' two guns still pouring into Anderson's breach. Three o'clock, and Anderson's guns bearing on