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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., From Moultrie to Sumter. (search)
United States arsenal in Charleston to get some friction primers and a little ammunition, a crowd interfered and drove his men back. It became evident, as I told Anderson, that we could not defend the fort, because the houses around us on Sullivan's Island looked down into Moultrie, and could be occupied by our enemies. At last it was rumored that two thousand riflemen had been detailed to shoot us down from the tops of those houses. I proposed to anticipate the enemy and burn the dwellingsway without any demonstration. Captain Chester, in his paper which follows, has omitted a fact that I will mention. As the fire against us came from all directions, a shot from The hot-shot furnace, Fort Moultrie--from a photograph. Sullivan's Island struck near the lock of the magazine, and bent the copper door, so that all access to the few cartridges we had there was cut off. Just previous to this the officers had been engaged, amid a shower of shells, in vigorous efforts to cut away
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Inside Sumter: in 1861. (search)
ite, was considered a rather pleasant station, Sullivan's Island being a favorite summer resort. Many of the w candidate. At one of these entertainments on Sullivan's Island, the regimental band attended,--hired as an atoad iron; and batteries on Morris, James, and Sullivan's islands were approaching completion. But our prepara floating battery in action at the west end of Sullivan's Island. Colonel Joseph A. Yates, who was a lieutenbatteries, the James Island batteries, and the Sullivan's Island batteries. With these last was included the fhad taken up a position off the western end of Sullivan's Island to command the left flank of Sumter. Captain her Costolan.--editors. to the guns bearing on Sullivan's Island. The guns in the lower tier, which were the o non-combatants, had collected on the beach of Sullivan's Island, well out of the line of fire, to witness the ly after his departure another small boat from Sullivan's Island, containing officers in full uniform (Wigfall
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first step in the War. (search)
h Carolina, and afterward of the Confederate States, took possession of Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, the arsenal, and other United States, property in the vicinity. They also remounted the guns at Fort Moultrie, and constructed batteries on Sullivan's, Morris, and James islands, and at other places, looking to the reduction of Fort Sumter if it should become necessary; meantime leaving no stone unturned to secure from the authorities at Washington a quiet evacuation of the fort. Several arr impressive ceremonies. Major Anderson and his command left the harbor, bearing with them the respect and admiration of the Confederate soldiers. The officers, under General Beauregard, of the batteries surrounding Fort Sumter were: Sullivan's Island, Brigadier-General R. G. M. Dunovant commanding, Lieutenant-Colonel Roswell S. Ripley, commanding the artillery: Five-gun Battery (east of Fort Moultrie), Captain S. Y. Tupper; Maffit Channel Battery (2 guns) and Mortar Battery No. 2 (2 10-