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Page 51
... front of Fort Sumter , to the con- struction of works for the reduction of the fort , and the de- fence of the entrances to the harbor . At the time of Major Anderson's removal to Sumter , the approaches to the harbor were only defended ...
... front of Fort Sumter , to the con- struction of works for the reduction of the fort , and the de- fence of the entrances to the harbor . At the time of Major Anderson's removal to Sumter , the approaches to the harbor were only defended ...
Page 66
... front of the Navy Yard seemed one vast sheet of flame . The next minute streaks of flame flashed along the rigging of the Pennsylvania and the other doomed ships , and soon they were completely wrapped in the devouring element . The ...
... front of the Navy Yard seemed one vast sheet of flame . The next minute streaks of flame flashed along the rigging of the Pennsylvania and the other doomed ships , and soon they were completely wrapped in the devouring element . The ...
Page 77
... front . The attack was received by a battery of the Richmond Howitzers , under command of Major Randolph ; the action being commenced by a shot from the Parrott gun in our main battery aimed by himself . One of the guns of the battery ...
... front . The attack was received by a battery of the Richmond Howitzers , under command of Major Randolph ; the action being commenced by a shot from the Parrott gun in our main battery aimed by himself . One of the guns of the battery ...
Page 79
... front was thought to give protection to the enemy . Four privates in the North Carolina regiment volunteered to advance beyond our lines and set it on fire . One of them , a youth named Henry L. Wyatt , advanced ahead of his compan ...
... front was thought to give protection to the enemy . Four privates in the North Carolina regiment volunteered to advance beyond our lines and set it on fire . One of them , a youth named Henry L. Wyatt , advanced ahead of his compan ...
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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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