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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 13 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 10 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 2 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Winter in France (search)
Forts and vessels. Another of the many examples of the inability of ships to compete with forts is mentioned by a New York journal in some reminiscences of Fort Morgan, which has been lately occupied by the troops of Alabama. This fort is located on Mobile Point, on the site of Fort Boyer, of 1814 memory — a long, low, sandy peninsular, between the Gulf of Mexico on the South, and Bonsecours' Bay and Navy Cove on the North. On September 14, 1814, a British fleet of four vessels, carrying ninety-two guns, attacked Fort Boyer, a small redoubt. This redoubt was garrisoned by only one hundred and twenty Americans — officers included — under the command of Major Lawrence, and its armament was but twenty small pieces of cannon, some of which were almost entirely useless, and most of them poorly mounted, in batteries hastily thrown up, and leaving the guns uncovered from the knee upward, while the enemy's land force, acting in concert with the ships, consisted of twenty artillerists <