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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: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
the rebels sent word that the fire would be opened in an hour. At 4 o'clock the fire opened on us from every direction, including a hidden battery. The fire opened with a volley from seventeen mortars firing ten inch shells, and shot from thirty-three guns, mostly columbiads. We took breakfast very leisurely. The command was divided into three watches, each under the direction of two officers. After breakfast, they immediately went to the guns and opened fire on Fort Moultrie, Cummings' Point, and Sullivan's Island Iron Battery.--Cummings' Point Battery was of immense strength, and most of our shot glanced off.--Major Anderson refused to allow the men to turn the guns on the parapet, on account of such a terrific fire being directed there. There was scarcely a room in Fort Moultrie left in a habitable condition, and several shots went through the Floating Battery, but it was but little damaged. Two guns on the Iron Battery were dismounted. A man was stationed, who cri