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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: September 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankees in Northwestern Virginia. (search)
Tuesday night. The incessant roar of heavy cannon had the effect of rousing our citizens from their beds and burying them to positions at White Point Garden, which was soon thronged by anxious spectators. The attack commenced about half-past 11, the monitors coming up within eight and thirteen hundred yards of Fort Moultrie, and opening a terrific fire on the east wall or sea face of Fort Sumter. Fort Moultrie and our batteries on Sullivan's Island, together with battery Gregg at Cummings's Point, replied with spirit, and the engagement becoming general a continuous roll of shot and shell whistling through the air was kept up for nearly five hours. About half-past 12 the Ironsides moved up and joined in the bombardment, when the whole horizon at times seemed to be on fire. The object of the enemy was evidently the complete demolition of the east wall, and against that nearly the whole of their tremendous fire was directed. Fire was also kept up occasionally on Sullivan's Islan
The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Tennessee. (search)
ight, and was maintained steadily until dark. A monitor is now firing at Fort Moultrie. Another assault on battery Wagner is deemed not impossible to-night. Since last night no further attack has been made on brick-built Sumter, which has been held twenty days against all efforts of the enemy's great guns, by land and sea. Seven thousand five hundred and fifty-one shots have been fired at it. Three thousand five hundred and ninety-five have struck outside, and two thousand one hundred and thirty inside. The flag has been shot away fourteen times. Orders against exposure having been rigidly enforced our casualties were few. [second Dispatch.] Charleston, Sept. 6 --9 1-2 A. M.--The bombardment of batteries Wagner and Gregg has been incessant for the last 32 hours. The noise of the cannonade is tremendous. Last night the enemy landed near Cumming's Point in barges and assaulted battery Gregg. The assault was repulsed. No particulars have yet been received.