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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 88 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 34 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 27 1 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 25 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 20 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 18 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 18 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 16 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 14 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. 12 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Cumming's Point (South Carolina, United States) or search for Cumming's Point (South Carolina, United States) in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
ir turret, cover the portholes, which were the weakest points. The manoeuvre which was to bring them in front of the most vulnerable part of the fort was therefore abandoned from the first, and the vessel which carried the admiral, with the largest number of guns, was kept away from the scene of action. The other four vessels, however, were approaching in their turn, and before half-past 3 o'clock they began firing alternately upon Forts Sumter and Moultrie and against the battery of Cumming's Point. The entrance of the bay of Charleston presented at this moment a truly wonderful sight. The eight Federal vessels, collected within the space of two-thirds of a square mile, steaming slowly forward and backward in the midst of a dense volume of smoke, not wishing to remain stationary for fear of facilitating the aim of the enemy's guns, were driven hither and and thither by the contrary currents of a slack tide, manoeuvring so as to avoid coming in contact with each other, and with t