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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 of action, Ingraham recrosses the bar and anchors in the north channel, about two-thirds of a mile from the guns of Fort Moultrie, where the authorities of Charleston, who during the action had not moved from under the cover of the guns of the forg a belt equally impassable for the naval and land forces. The ships entering Charleston are obliged to pass between Fort Moultrie, situated at the extremity of the northern bank, called Sullivan's Island, and Fort Sumter, which stands upon a sand formed serious obstacles which completed the two principal lines of defence: they were to extend from Fort Sumter to Fort Moultrie and from Fort Ripley to Fort Johnson. In short, the channel was strewn with floating torpedoes; but, to judge from t were smaller in size and less exposed to the projectiles of the enemy. At three o'clock the first shot was fired by Fort Moultrie at the Weehawken. This vessel, under whose keel a torpedo had just exploded, replied immediately, but by directing he