. La storia fotografica della Guerra civile : in dieci volumi . nstructed del theBEST Carolina grigio mattone, posato in un mortaio di ostriche-conchiglie e cemento, il loro spessore di fiveto dieci piedi ha fatto sembrare la roccaforte inespugnabile. Nonostante l'aspetto nella foto, è provedso. L'attacco che ha iniziato la guerra ha fatto pochissimi danni, oltre l'incendio delle caserme.due anni più tardi, l'ammiraglio posteriore Samuel F. Du Pont ha condotto un attacco navale che si prevedeva di capiturel forte con poco ritardo; tuttavia il pesante bombardamento non ha fatto quasi impressione. L'ironcladthat era Sumter più vicino, il Keokuk, st

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . nstructed of thebest Carolina gray brick, laid in a mortar of pounded oyster-shells and cement, their thickness of fiveto ten feet made the stronghold seem impregnable. Despite the appearance in the picture, it provedso. The attack that began the war did very little damage, beyond the burning of the barracks.Two years later, Rear-Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont led a naval attack that was expected to capturethe fort with little delay; yet the heavy bombardment made almost no impression. The ironcladthat was nearest Sumter, the Keokuk, struck ninety times, was so badly injured that it sank the nextmorning. The Weehawken was hit fifty-three times; the Passaic thirty -five times, the Montaukfourteen times, the Patapsco, the fourth vessel in line, forty-seven times; and so on through the entirefleet. The fort, on the other hand, was hardly injured. At one point, where an 11-inch and a 15-inch shell struck at the same point at the same time, the wall was completely breached; on the outside [336). itfH I REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE CRUMBLED WALLS FROM THE SAND BAR—1865 appeared a crater six feet high and eight feet wide. But the destruction shown in the picture waswrought by the bombardment from the land-batteries four months later. General Gillmores gunsopened on August 17th. Major John Johnson in Battles and Leaders makes this report of theeffect of Gillmores operations and of the work of the defenders: When demolished by land-bat-teries of unprecedented range, the fort endured for more than eighteen months their almost constantfire, and for a hundred days and nights their utmost power until it could with truth be said that it atlast tired out, and in this way silenced, the great guns that once had silenced it. From having been adesolate ruin, a shapeless pile of shattered walls and casemates, showing here and there the guns dis-abled and half-buried in splintered wrecks of carriages, its mounds of rubbish fairly

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