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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)
ic metre), and loses then, with 5 per cent. of its volume, a part of its resistance to shots. Under these circumstances a bombardment could produce no decisive effect unless it were the destruction of the uncovered cannon behind the parapet. While the artillery of Fort Wagner, supported by Sumter's heavy ordnance, sought to delay the construction of the Federal batteries, Beauregard, very uneasy on account of the presence of Terry's division on James Island, made a demonstration on the 16th of July against the positions that the latter had taken near Grimball's plantation. The Confederates, although superior in number, did not seriously attack, but their artillery compelled a prompt retreat on the part of the Federal gunboats, which could not operate on Stono River: the Pawnee was riddled with shots. On the morrow Gillmore recalled Terry's division: he needed all his forces on Morris Island, and could not, as we have said, attempt to occupy James Island, however advantageous migh