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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters from Fort Sumter in 1862 and 1863 . (search)
Letters from Fort Sumter in 1862 and 1863. By Lieut. Iredell Jones, First Regiment S. C. Regulars.
No. 2.
Fort Sumter, July 20, 1863.
My Dear Father, —Since my last to mother much of interest has transpired, and all before my eyes.
I have seen a desperate battle fought, preceded, as it was, by one of the most furious bombardments of the war. About 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the five monitors, the Ironsides, and five gunboats moved up in front of Wagner and immediately opened a most terrific shelling, and they had not fired long before the enemy's batteries (two in number) joined in, and all together poured forth their missiles of death for ten long hours on our little fort, containing only one gun with which we were able to reply.
The rest of the guns in the fort are of light calibre and useful only against an assaulting party.
Our men took refuge in their bomb-proofs, and, having sustained only a few casualties, quietly awaited the time when they would be afford
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters from Fort Sumter . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters from Fort Sumter . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters from Fort Sumter . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Morris Island . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters from Fort Sumter . (search)