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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 6: siege of Knoxville.--operations on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. (search)
s Channel. The next, near the Moultrie House, on the same island, was a strong sand battery, called Fort Beauregard. Fort Moultrie,. a little farther westward, had been greatly strengthened since the beginning of the war; and near it, on the wester these, there were chains composed of linked railway-iron, to obstruct channels; and there lay, between Forts Sumter and Moultrie, a heavy rope buoyed up by empty casks, and bearing a perfect Piece of chain tangle of nets, cables, and other lines,pedoes were prepared for explosion, by means of electricity transmitted through wires from batteries at Forts Sumter and Moultrie. The harbor and its approaches were also sown with torpedoes, one kind of which, represented in the engraving, was supprough its huge parabola, with the weight of 10,000 tons. home to its mark. At the same time the guns of Forts Sumter, Moultrie, Wagner, and the batteries within range, having an aggregate of nearly three hundred pieces, According to the report
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
the Nationals until the next morning, when Lieutenant-Colonel A. G. Bennett, commanding on Morris Island, having hints to that effect, dispatched a boat toward Fort Moultrie for information. When near Fort Sumter, it was met by another, containing some musicians, which Hardee had left behind. They attested the truth of the rumor.y gave us the use of the government barge, fully equipped and manned, and in it we visited Castle Pinckney, and Forts Ripley, Johnson, Gregg, Wagner, Sumter, and Moultrie. We lunched at Fort Wagner, and picked delicate violets from the marsh sod among the sand dunes over the grave of the gallant Colonel Shaw and his dusky fellow-martyrs. See page 205. We rambled over the heaps of Fort Sumter, and made the sketch of the interior seen on page 465; and then we passed over to Fort Moultrie, which I had visited eighteen years before, when it was in perfect order. Now it was sadly changed. Its form and dimensions had been altered; and missiles from the Nati
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
pont, 3.190; capture of by Gen. Hazen, 3.412. Fort Macon, capture of, 2.312; visit of the author to in 1864, 2.313. Fort Marion, capture of, 2.322. Fort Morgan, seizure of by State troops, 1.174; sur; render of to Farragut, 2.443. Fort Moultrie, description of, 1.117; garrisons of transferred to Fort Sumter by Major Anderson, 1.129; seizure of by South Carolina troops, 1.137. Fort Norfolk, seizure of by insurgents, 1.398. Fort Pemberton, Ross's expedition against, 2.587. Foes, 2.298. Fort St. Philip, surrender of to Capt. Porter, 2.339. Fort Sanders, repulse of Longstreet at, 3.173. Fort Steadman, capture of by Lee's troops, 3.537; recapture of, 3.538. Fort Sumter, description of, 1.118; garrison of Fort Moultrie transferred to by Maj. Anderson, 1.129; preparations in Charleston for an attack on, 1.136; excitement occasioned throughout the country by Anderson's occupation of, 1.140; preparations for the re-enforcement of, 1.152; surrender of demanded