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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)
the attack on that side, but in order to do this it was necessary to get over the pass and the first line of the enemy's defences. The machines of war with which he was about to venture upon this undertaking had as yet only been tested against Fort McAllister: though they had withstood its fire, they had not succeeded in silencing it, and the trial could not be considered as sufficient. The bay of Charleston and the defences with which it bristled bore some resemblance to those of Sebastopol. It was before this latter place that the last great battle between ships of war and forts had been fought eight years previously. The advantage had then been entirely in favor of the latter. Has the invention of the monitors given the navy the superiority over the land artillery? DuPont was looking for the solution of this problem among the Charleston passes. In order to bring on the conflict, he required certain meteorological conditions in his favor: first of all, a very strong t