hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865. You can also browse the collection for Sand (Canada) or search for Sand (Canada) in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Military operations of General Beauregard. (search)
e classed as heavy, if not above the calibre of 32, except rifled 32-pounders. The following conclusions were arrived at: 1st. The existing defences of the entrance are: Beauregard battery, with two heavy guns; Fort Moultrie, with nine; the Sand Batteries on the west end of Sullivan's Island, with but four yet mounted; and Fort Sumter, with thirty-eight. Of the Gorge, say nine guns in Fort Moultrie, thirty-two in Fort Sumter (not including seven 10-inch mortars), and as yet but four in the Sand batteries. Of the Harbor, say fourteen guns of Fort Sumter, and the four guns in the new Sand batteries. Fort Johnson has one rifled 32-pounder, but it is not banded, and is unsafe. For the City defence, some batteries have been arranged and commenced, but heavy guns are neither mounted nor disposable. 2d. The floating boom is incomplete. 3d. It is no barrier now. 4th. The boom, even if completed on the present plan, might be forced, although it would serve as a check