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Page 54
... fire was opened upon Fort Sumter . The firing was deliberate , and was continned , without interruption , for twelve hours . The iron battery at Cumming's Point did the most effective service , perceptibly injuring the walls of the ...
... fire was opened upon Fort Sumter . The firing was deliberate , and was continned , without interruption , for twelve hours . The iron battery at Cumming's Point did the most effective service , perceptibly injuring the walls of the ...
Page 63
... fire was re- turned from a number of revolvers ; the soldiers were attacked with sticks , stones , and every conceivable weapon , and in more than one instance their muskets were actually wrung from their hands by desperate and unarmed ...
... fire was re- turned from a number of revolvers ; the soldiers were attacked with sticks , stones , and every conceivable weapon , and in more than one instance their muskets were actually wrung from their hands by desperate and unarmed ...
Page 65
... fire to and scuttled . They were the Pennsylvania , the Columbus and Delaware , the steam - frigate Merrimac ( she was only partially destroyed ) , the sloops Ger- mantown and Plymouth , the frigates Raritan and Columbia , and the brig ...
... fire to and scuttled . They were the Pennsylvania , the Columbus and Delaware , the steam - frigate Merrimac ( she was only partially destroyed ) , the sloops Ger- mantown and Plymouth , the frigates Raritan and Columbia , and the brig ...
Page 66
... fire . A sickly blaze , that seemed neither to diminish nor increase , continued f several hours . Men were kept busy all night transferring every thing of value from the Pennsylvania and Navy Yard to the Pawnee and Cumberland , and ...
... fire . A sickly blaze , that seemed neither to diminish nor increase , continued f several hours . Men were kept busy all night transferring every thing of value from the Pennsylvania and Navy Yard to the Pawnee and Cumberland , and ...
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... Fire Zouaves , had entered the town , observed a Confederate flag floating from the top of an hotel called the Marshall House , and attended by a squad of his men , determined to secure it as his prize . He found his way into the hotel ...
... Fire Zouaves , had entered the town , observed a Confederate flag floating from the top of an hotel called the Marshall House , and attended by a squad of his men , determined to secure it as his prize . He found his way into the hotel ...
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Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2016 |
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