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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
y Island, occupied in force by the Federals. To the southward of Folly Island the estuary of Stono Inlet offered the fleet a pretty safe anchorage and good landing-places, since the Confederates hadd, bounded on the north-east by the pass of Lighthouse Inlet and on the south-west by that of Stono Inlet, is separated from the mainland by a winding arm of the sea called Folly River: the island is to shelter the cannon; the wooden platforms, the guncarriages, and the ammunition, landed in Stono Inlet, were brought to the batteries across the island. The sandhills and the brushwood masked by of Beauregard, voluntarily to abandon the positions on Cole's Island which forbade access to Stono Inlet on the part of the Federals, and thus allowed them to establish themselves on Folly Island: the departure of the one that he had organized. Dahlgren, on the other hand, had collected in Stono Inlet some twenty launches, manned with four hundred marines, under the direction of Captain Steven