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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., chapter 20 (search)
ockading fleet, a fortnight ago. Finally, down at Lighthouse inlet, which divides Morris from Folly island, is another fortification, guarding against an attempt at a landing at that point. Such is tquiet possession of nearly or quite all the Sea islands west of the Stono, with Seabrook and Folly islands, east of that inlet. Our pickets still — as on the day of Dupont's attack — confronted thosr forces from Morris island, where they were needed, to James island, where they were not. Folly island — a long, narrow beach or sand-spit, skirting the Atlantic ocean south of the entrance to Charry's division, 4,000 strong, and Gen. Strong's brigade of 2,500, were quietly transferred to Folly island, under the cover of darkness, and kept out of sight, while Vogdes made a great parade of strehey were halted, behind a screen of marsh-grass, while Vogdes's batteries on the north end of Folly island broke, at daylight, July 10. the slumbers of the unsuspecting foe. Dahlgren's iron-clads, <