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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
army had broken the first defensive line of the place, and established a footing at the entrance to the pass. Henceforth, the port of Charleston was closed to the blockaderunners. The siege operations had been conducted with intelligence and vigor. The Confederates had fought with courage, their sharpshooters had shown much skill, but they had committed several grave errors. In the first place, they were wrong, before the arrival of Beauregard, voluntarily to abandon the positions on Cole's Island which forbade access to Stono Inlet on the part of the Federals, and thus allowed them to establish themselves on Folly Island: then, by concentrating their principal elements of defence on the northern part of Morris Island, they had allowed the enemy to gain a footing on the southern part. Instead of collecting within two enclosed works all the artillery intended for action against the fleet, they would have done better to divide it into small separate batteries, which are far more di