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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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The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
inner was progressing the land battery still kept at work unremittingly, and was responded to with two or three return shots from Fort Wagner. At 5 o'clock two of the monitors steamed up the channel and took position about 1,000 yards from Fort Wagner and soon opened fire on this stubborn pile of earth, which has already withstood a battering for nearly a month and two land assault. The firing of the enemy against the monitors opened with great vim, Sumter joining in the melee and Cummings's Point also adding to the din of battle. The land siege battery seconded the monitors with renewed energy, and at the time we left harbor for Port Royal the bombardment was progressing with great fury, the approach of duck marking the explosions with flashes of flame, and the occasional shell bursting in the air could be traced by sparks of fire. The sight was becoming more grand as twilight approached, and we left with regret at being deprived of the view of the night bombardment. The mort
The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Charleston. (search)
ffairs there. We get from the Mercury, however, two incidents which vary the monotony of the slege a little: On Tuesday night, before the moon had risen, a spirited little affair took place in Schooner Creek, between James and Morris Island, resulting in the capture of a Yankee large with its crow. For several nights it was known that the enemy had been posting some picket boats in the marsh near the hulk of the old steamer Monigault, for the purpose of observing our movements at Cumming's Point, and giving notice by rockets to their Morris Island batteries when to open fire on our transports. The military authorities having determined to capture or drive off these water pickets of the enemy. an expedition was formed with that view. About 8½ o'clock on Monday night Captain Sellers, with a detachment of thirty men from the 25th S. C. V. (Eutaw) Regiment, left Fort Johnston in two boats and rowed into Schooner Creek. About the same time Captain Warley, of the Navy, with two b