Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Sebastopol (Pennsylvania, United States) or search for Sebastopol (Pennsylvania, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
t the same time the besiegers against the much more serious perils of the sallies. By surrounding themselves with torpedoes the Confederates condemned themselves to a passive role. It was a great mistake: the fifteen hundred men who had the means of sheltering themselves in the blindages of Fort Wagner should have retained the means of taking the offensive against the approaches of the Federals that could be guarded only by a small number of combatants: the history of all sieges, that of Sebastopol in particular, taught that to them. In fine, as fast as the besiegers approached the place the danger created by the outline of Morris Island augmented for them: their batteries had to fire above the trenches, and the shells which burst too soon hit their own soldiers. Colonel Purviance, who was in command of the trenches on the 30th of August, was thus killed by a Federal projectile, and it became necessary to displace several pieces to reassure the soldiers exposed to this new danger.