Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States, Volume 8Amer. Educational Alliance, 1915 - United States |
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... fire on Cummings Point , Anderson turned his guns on the enfilade battery on Sulli- van's Island and next on Fort Moul- trie , between which latter point and Fort Sumter a steady fire was main- tained throughout the day f After dark the ...
... fire on Cummings Point , Anderson turned his guns on the enfilade battery on Sulli- van's Island and next on Fort Moul- trie , between which latter point and Fort Sumter a steady fire was main- tained throughout the day f After dark the ...
Page 72
... fire from the fleet was a terrific contin- uous roar , shells flying into the fort " not 28 in a minute but as fast as a horse's feet beat the ground in a gallop . " The Confederates replied with a well maintained fire notwith- standing ...
... fire from the fleet was a terrific contin- uous roar , shells flying into the fort " not 28 in a minute but as fast as a horse's feet beat the ground in a gallop . " The Confederates replied with a well maintained fire notwith- standing ...
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... fire was thrown upon them and simultaneously , at a signal from the fort , all the Confederate batteries on James and Sullivan's Islands , with one of their gunboats , opened fire . The attack was repulsed and all the troops who landed ...
... fire was thrown upon them and simultaneously , at a signal from the fort , all the Confederate batteries on James and Sullivan's Islands , with one of their gunboats , opened fire . The attack was repulsed and all the troops who landed ...
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