. The Red Cross in peace and war. res, of a fearful storm coming up from the WestIndies that had struck our coast in the region of South Carolina,sweeping entirely over its adjacent range of islands, known as the OldPort Royal group, covering them from the sea to a depth of sixteenfeet, with the wind at a rate of one hundred and twenty miles an houf—that its destructive power was so great that it had not only sweptthe islands, but had extended several miles onto the mainland of theState. I chanced to be familiar with the geography and topography ofthat group of islands, having lived on them in
. The Red Cross in peace and war. res, of a fearful storm coming up from the WestIndies that had struck our coast in the region of South Carolina,sweeping entirely over its adjacent range of islands, known as the OldPort Royal group, covering them from the sea to a depth of sixteenfeet, with the wind at a rate of one hundred and twenty miles an houf—that its destructive power was so great that it had not only sweptthe islands, but had extended several miles onto the mainland of theState. I chanced to be familiar with the geography and topography ofthat group of islands, having lived on them in the capacity of warrelief many months during the siege of Charleston in 1863-64. Know-ing that they scarcely averaged four feet rise above the sea level, withno mountains, not even hills that could be called such, that the soft,sandy soil could not be trusted to hold its tree roots firm, that thehabitations were only huts, to be washed away like little piles ofboards—I thought I saw no escape for the inhabitants and that all.
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