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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 88 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 34 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 27 1 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 25 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 20 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 18 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 18 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 16 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 14 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 12 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Extracts from the diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John G. Pressley, of the Twenty-Fifth South Carolina Volunteers. (search)
Rhett. Our Surgeon, W. C. Ravenel, M. D., went with me down to Fort Johnson to witness the fight. It lasted about two hours and a half. It was a magnificent sight. Perhaps never before in the history of wars were there as many guns of such heavy calibre used in one action. The Confederates had the advantage in the number of guns, but the heavier calibre of the Federal artillery more than counter-balanced this advantage. Forts Sumter and Moultrie, Battery Gregg, on Morris Island, at Cumming's Point, were all engaged using all of their metal to bear on the fleet. The monitors offered such a small mark that it was very difficult to strike them, particularly while in motion. The practice of our artillerists was, however, highly creditable. The ironclads were struck a number of times. No other fleet then in the world would have floated through such a bombardment. The shot from our heaviest guns glanced from the turrets of the monitors doing apparently no harm. At last the Keokuk