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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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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sudden death. (search)
un at Fort Pickens in a few days, or weeks at most, Lincoln's Cabinet would be blown up in two monts, and that we should have no other State in the Southern Confederacy. We shall see. You will see in the Mercury of to-day, a very correct plan of Charleston harbor. If you will take your stand in the middle of the point of the city, with your face towards Fort Sumter, you will have the harbor laid out before you. You will see Morris' Island, with its point nearest to Sumter, called Cumming's Point. On that Point there are three batteries of the most formidable kind, and from there to a little beyond the "Star of the West," there are ten others, all mounted for the most part with the heaviest ordnance. On Sullivan's Island there are two others, beside Fort Moultrie. Near Mount Pleasant there is another. On James' Island, at Fort Johnson, is another. I am sure it would be impossible for any number of vessels to pass these batteries. I understand that very extensive prepar