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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)
e-runners, and among others two large steamers, the Queen of the Wave and the Georgiana, which, being hotly pursued by Federal ships, were driven upon the coast and abandoned by their crews. The operations against Charleston were about to commence. A regiment of infantry had occupied Cole's Island, on the left bank of the Stono River, on the 28th of March—a position extremely well chosen for commanding both this arm of the sea and the entrance of the long channel which under the name of Folly River runs as far as Secessionville. The navy had completed its preparations and collected together all the forces it could dispose of. These forces comprised nine iron-clad vessels. They were the four monitors already mentioned, the Montauk, the Passaic, the Patapsco, and the Nahant; three others, named the Weehaw- Ironsides; and, finally, the Keokuk, a species of monitor differing from the original type in so far that it carried two stationary turrets, each furnished with four portholes and