Engineer and Artillery Operations Against the Defences of Charleston Harbor in 1863: Comprising the Descent Upon Morris Island, the Demolition of Fort Sumter, the Reduction of Forts Wagner and Gregg ; with Observations on Heavy Ordnance, Fortifications, EtcD. Van Nostrand, 1865 - 354 Seiten |
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30-pounder Parrott 8-inch Parrott rifle abatis Admiral DAHLGREN advance artillery assault attack August August 22 Battery Gregg boats bomb-proof shelter bombardment breaching batteries Brigadier-General burst Captain Cast-iron charge Charleston coehorn mortars Colonel commanding creek Cummings Point defence duty elevation embrasures end of Folly end of Morris enemy enemy's feet fifth parallel fire flank Folly Island force Fort Pulaski Fort Sumter Fort Wagner fourth parallel front gabions Greek Fire harbor heavy guns hundred yards inches infantry iron iron-clads James Island July land Lighthouse Inlet magazine marsh morning Morris Island naval navy night north end Nostrand officers opened operations ordnance parapet piece piles Plate platforms position pounds Q. A. GILLMORE rear regiments Requa batteries revetting rifled guns sand bags second parallel September sharpshooters shell shot splinter-proof shelter Stono River Sullivan's Island Sumter third parallel Third Rhode Island to-day torpedoes trenches troops Wagner York Volunteer Engineers
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Seite 19 - We now hold all the island except about one mile on the north end, which includes Fort Wagner and a battery on Cummings' Point, mounting at the present time fourteen or fifteen heavy guns in the aggregate.
Seite 19 - The fact that forty -seven pieces of artillery, with two hundred rounds of ammunition for each gun, and provided with suitable parapets, splinter-proof shelters, and magazines, were secretly placed in battery in a position within speaking distance of the enemy's pickets, exposed to a flank and reverse view from their tall observatories on James Island, and to a flank view at pistol range from the wreck, furnishes by no means ' the least interesting and instructive incident of this campaign.
Seite 195 - ... of furnishing and laying a regular minor water pipe of approved materials and manufacture, with the required openings for connections with private service water pipe along the front of such lot, such minor pipe to be not less than four nor more than six inches in diameter, as the said board may determine. Every irregular lot, part of lot, or other parcel of land fronting or abutting on such line of water pipe, and likewise any parcel of land, or lot, which shall be contiguous to any parcel of...
Seite 281 - I shall open fire on the city of Charleston from batteries already established within easy and effective range of the heart of the city.
Seite 45 - ... blow. The slow and laborious operation by trench and cannon only were capable of reducing it. And here I may remark, that in this necessity is to be found a principal cause for the delay in reaching Charleston that subsequently ensued. It was no doubt unavoidable, for it is to be presumed that no more troops could then be spared from the main armies. If there had been sufficient to make such an assault as would have overpowered all opposition, Wagner might have been carried at the first assault,...
Seite 25 - The dark and gloomy days of the siege were now upon us. Our daily losses, although not heavy, were on the increase, while our progress became discouragingly slow, and even fearfully uncertain.
Seite 11 - ... left to the judgment and discretion of the officer intrusted with the execution of the project. It was presumed that as soon as the fleet should reach the city, the outer line of defenses thus broken through would be abandoned by the enemy, for the control of Cooper and Wando Rivers by our gunboats, and the operations of the land forces which they could then aid and cover, would compel the evacuation of Sullivan's Island, after which the possession of James Island would be of but little value...
Seite 72 - To obtain much greater strength by casting guns heavier is impossible, because in cast guns (whether of iron, brass, or other metal) the outside helps but very little in restraining the explosive force of the powder tending to burst the gun, the strain not being communicated to it by the intervening metal. The consequence is, that, in large guns, the inside is split, while the outside is scarcely strained. This split rapidly increases, and the gun ultimately bursts.
Seite 283 - My letter to you demanding the surrender of Fort Sumter and Morris Island, and threatening, in default thereof, to open fire upon Charleston, was delivered near Fort Wagner at 11.15 o'clock p.
Seite 282 - It would appear, sir, that despairing of reducing these works, you now resort to the novel means of turning your guns against the old men, the women and children, and the hospitals of a sleeping city...