. Battaglie e leader della Guerra civile : essere per la maggior parte contributi da parte di ufficiali dell'Unione e confederati. E di quarantacinque gradi. Le pistole sono state poi poste in tacche ad intervalli uguali lungo la trincea. Non avevamo nessuna portunity di j^per provare questa nuova batteria mortar, buteverjbody era soddisfatto che avrebbe potuto fare buon SERT.ce. Ci si aspettava che le mura di Fort Sumter fossero in grado di resistere alle armi che conoscevamo il nemico posseduto, ma non abbiamo anticipato le importazioni dall'estero. Durante il bombardamento un Whitwoith pistola di piccolo calibro, appena ricevuto dall'Inghilterra, è stato montato i

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. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . e of forty-five degrees. The guns were then placed in notches at equal intervals alongthe trench. We had no oj^portunity to try this novel mortar battery, buteverjbody was satisfied that it could have done good serT.ce. It was expected that the walls of Fort Sumter would be able to withstandthe guns which we knew the enemy possessed, but we did not anticipateimportations from abroad. During the bombardment a Whitwoith gun ofsmall caliber, just received from England, was mounted in one of the MorrisIsland batteries, and in a few rounds demonstrated its ability to breach thework. Fortunately its supply of ammunition was limited, and the fire stoppedshort of an actual breach. But a few hours more of that Wliitworth 12-pounder would have knocked a hole in oiu defenses. A breach was not dreaded by the ganison, for, weak as it was, it could havegiven a good account of itself defending a breach. The greatest danger was asimultaneous attack on all sides. Sixty-four men could not be made veiy. INTERIOR OF SUMTER AFTER THE SURRENDER, SHOWING THE 8-INCH COLUMBIADS PLANTED AS MORTARS, AND THE CONFEDERATE FLAG FLYING FR<):I THE DERRICK BY AVHICH THE GUNS WERE RAISID TO THE ITFPEU TIER. FROM A PIKITOGUAPH. 58 INSIDE SUMTER IN 61. effective at a dozen clifferent points. Ttie possibility of the enemy, undercover of darkness, getting a foothold in force on the naiTOw bit of riprappingbetween tide-water and the foundation of the scai-p was ever present inour minds. The most likely place to land was the wharf, a stone sti-uctuie in front ofthe main entrance. There an assaulting column might be formed and themain gate stonned, while the bulk of the ganison was defending the embra-sures. To checkmate any such attempt, means of blowing the wharf out ofexistence were devised. Two five-gallon demijohns filled with powder wereplanted as mines, well imder the wharf pavement

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