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Folly River (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ivision, some four thousand infantry, on James Island so as to draw off a portion of the Confederate force on Morris Island. While this demonstration was taking place, two thousand men of Gen. Strong's brigade were to embark in small boats in Folly River, effect a landing on Morris Island, and, at a given signal, attempt to carry Fort Wagner by assault. The batteries on the north end of Folly Island were also ordered to be unmasked, by opening out the embrasures and cutting away the brushwood in front of them. At daybreak of the 10th July, forty launches containing Strong's assaulting column crept up Folly River with muffled oar-locks; the ironclad fleet crossed the bar, and took up its position in the main ship-channel off Morris Island; two hundred axemen suddenly sprung from behind the batteries on Folly Island, and felled the trees which hid them from view; embrasure after embrasure was laid bare; and at five o'clock the first gun was heard from the suddenly revealed batter
James Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
to the fleet, when it was ready to move in, run by the batteries on James and Sullivan's Islands, and reach the city. Gen. Gillmore assume waters of Stone Harbour and Inlet and the water approaches from James Island, had been occupied in force by the enemy since the 7th April. Bver to a flank and reverse view from their tall observatories on James Island. Indeed there was a circumstance yet more curious. A blockade ration of Gen. Terry's division, some four thousand infantry, on James Island so as to draw off a portion of the Confederate force on Morris I demonstration against Charleston would be made by the old route-James Island-and accordingly had almost stripped Morris Island of his artille attack, in order that it might not be distinctly seen from the James Island and Sullivan's Island batteries, and from Fort Sumter. But thisn, and two batteries were constructed, with bandages, under fire of James and Sullivan's Islands. From this moment Fort Wagner received more
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 26
breaking, by its great weight, several trucks, the monster gun was finally hauled up, and placed in position, and Charleston, four miles and a half away, little dreamed that the Swamp Angel The following effusion of a Northern writer gives an explanation of this name, in which blasphemy and devilish hate are united. The poetry reads like the exultation of a fiend. The Swamp Angel hears the traitor boasting of security, and sends forth its dreadful warning that nowhere in these United States are traitors safe from the avenging wrath of the Republic. Flaunting, and boasting, and brisk, and gay, The streets of the city shine to-day. Forts without, our army within, To think of surrender were deadly sin; For the foe far over the wave abide, And no guns can reach o'er the flowing tide. They can't? Through the air, with a rush and a yell, Come the screech and the roar of the howling shell; And the populous city is still alive With the bees that are leaving the ancient hive; And
Saint Michael (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
an outrage committed that would have shocked the sensibilities of the world. But happily Gen. Gillmore was not able to do what he threatened, and what that cowardly hate in the North, whose invocation against the South was, Kill all the inhabitants, waited for him to accomplish. The attempted bombardment of Charleston was a failure. Some few missiles from the Federal batteries on Morris Island reached the city. Twelve 8-inch shells fell in the streets; several flew in the direction of St. Michael's steeple; but fortunately no one was injured. The Swamp Angel fired only a few shots. At the thirty-sixth discharge the piece burst, blowing out the entire breech in rear of the vent. No guns were placed in the Marsh Battery after this; the Greek fire proved a humbug; and firing upon the city was not resumed until after all of Morris Island came into the enemy's possession. The formidable strength of Fort Wagner, as developed in the unsuccessful assault of the 18th July, induced Ge
Sodom (Israel) (search for this): chapter 26
ed worthless; Admiral Dahlgren feared the destruction of a fleet which had cost so much sacrifice, and refused to ascend the harbour; and the demonstration upon Charleston degenerated into the desultory record of a fruitless bombardment. The Northern public appeared to sicken of the experiment of Parrott guns and monster artillery, and read with disgust the daily bulletins of how many hundred useless shots had been fired, and of how much ammunition had been grandly expended in a great noise to little purpose. How many times, asked an indignant Philadelphia paper, has Fort Sumter been taken? How many times has Charleston been burned? How often have the people been on the eve of starvation and surrender? How many times has the famous Greek Fire poured the rain of Sodom and the flames of hell upon the secession city? We cannot keep the count --but those can who rang the bells and put out the flags, and invoked the imprecations, and rejoiced at the story of conflagration and ruin.
Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
proposed by the reduction of the works on Morris Island. a base of operations on Folly Island. hhe Fort. the Confederates evacuate it and Morris Island. what Gen. Beauregard accomplished by theof the enemy engaged in these operations. Morris Island was on the south side of the entrance to t off a portion of the Confederate force on Morris Island. While this demonstration was taking plac boats in Folly River, effect a landing on Morris Island, and, at a given signal, attempt to carry its position in the main ship-channel off Morris Island; two hundred axemen suddenly sprung from b enemy, having once obtained a foothold on Morris Island, would eventually compel an evacuation by dmitting the impracticability of defending Morris Island after the position of the enemy on it was itals of Charleston, was nearly midway between Morris and James Islands, seven thousand yards distanshed a new object by his long retention of Morris Island; that, in fact, he had replaced Sumter by [10 more...]
Cumming's Point (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
act, surrendered all the island except about one mile on the north end, which included Fort Wagner and Fort Gregg on Cumming's Point; and virtually made the reduction of these works but a question of time. It was very clear that the enemy, having oit debouched from the first parallel, a tremendous fire from the barbette guns on Fort Sumter, from the batteries on Cumming's Point, and from all the guns on Fort Wagner, opened upon it. The guns from Wagner swept the beach, and those from Sumter and Cumming's Point enfiladed it on the left. Still the column staggered on within eighty yards of the fort. And now a compact and most destructive musketry fire was poured upon it from the parapet, along which gleamed a fringe of fire. In five mirt Gregg had been equally abandoned. Morris Island was thus the prize of the enemy, who now possessed themselves of Cumming's Point, from which they could plainly see Charleston at a distance of four miles. The Northern public at once jumped to
Lighthouse Inlet (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
Folly Island under a screen of thick undergrowth; but it is certainly to the last degree surprising that he should have succeeded in secretly placing in battery forty-seven pieces of artillery so near to the Confederate lines that a loud word might have revealed the work, and exposed moreover to a flank and reverse view from their tall observatories on James Island. Indeed there was a circumstance yet more curious. A blockade runner had been chased ashore just south of the entrance to Lighthouse Inlet, and it actually occurred that the vessel was wrecked by Confederate soldiers within pistol range of the enemy's battery on Folly Island, without their being in the least aware of such a grim neighbour. This battery was ready to open fire on the 6th July. A plan of attack upon Morris Island was now deliberately formed, one part of which was a strong demonstration of Gen. Terry's division, some four thousand infantry, on James Island so as to draw off a portion of the Confederate for
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
he next morning. The Seventh Connecticut Regiment was to take the lead, followed by the Seventy-Sixth Pennsylvania and Ninth Maine. Gen. Strong, who led the assaulting column, gave a Cromwellian order: Aim low, and put your trust in God! The Connecticut soldiers took the double-quick, and with a cheer rushed for the works. Before they reached the outer works, they got a terrible fire from the Confederate rifles, and the fort opened with three 8-inch howitzers, heavily charged with grape and r works with an extraordinary courage, that must be recorded to their honour, and were advancing to the crest of the parapet, when it was discovered that the regiments which were to support them had staggered back and lost their distance. The Connecticut regiment was left to effect its retreat through a sheet of fire. Nearly one half of them were killed or wounded. But the loss of the Confederates was quite as large. Gen. Beauregard estimated his losses in opposing the landing of the enemy
Fort Ripley (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
, where, instead of being any one key to a plan of fortification, there was the necessity of a siege for every battery, in which the besiegers were always exposed to the fire of others. He was unwilling, too, to risk the destructive defenses and infernal machines with which the passes were blockaded. The Confederates had given out that by no possibility could one of the gunboats escape these, and Dahlgren's squadron of iron-clads and Monitors did not dare venture far up the harbour past Fort Ripley and within range of the immediate defences of the city. Gillmore claimed that he had reduced Fort Sumter; but the Confederate flag still floated over it. It had been held through the siege and cannonade by the First South Carolina Artillery, under Col. Alfred Rhett, until its armament had been disabled; and the services of the artillerymen being elsewhere required, Gen. Beauregard determined that it should be held by infantry. On the night of the 4th September, the Charleston Battali
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