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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Federal naval Officer's opinion of iron-clads. (search)
molish Fort Sumter, or any square case-mated stone or brick fort in two hours. But sand forts are different things, particularly where the guns are isolated and far apart, and protected by high, thick, earthen, traverses. The shell bury in the sand and throw it about promiscuously; but unless you hit the gun itself no great damage is done beyond occasionally killing a gun's crew, whose place can be supplied if its defenders are in earnest." He does not consider the condition of affairs at Port Royal as very promising. The political strife in the North is said to be producing "a dire effect upon the esprit of our army and navy." About one-half of the men are described as "sick of the war on any basis of cause whatever." One-fourth are bitter anti proclamation men. One eighth are stragglers and skulks, and the remaining eighth of the officers and men are Abolitionists, "and, perhaps," says this bold and sarcastic critic, the "poorest fighters of the lot." If but even a part of this sta