. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . the jjoint of assault. A battery of lO-iuch mortars was placednear the subsefjuent location of Fort Rice, and directed its fire,at a range of eight hundred yards, uj^on a salient battery ofthe Confederates, from which much trouble was a shot was fired from the Confederate battery after itsrange was obtained, and from information received afterwardfrom a Southern officer, it was foinid that the men could notremain at their guns after the showers of balls began falling,every thirty seconds, around them. The ordinary m
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . the jjoint of assault. A battery of lO-iuch mortars was placednear the subsefjuent location of Fort Rice, and directed its fire,at a range of eight hundred yards, uj^on a salient battery ofthe Confederates, from which much trouble was a shot was fired from the Confederate battery after itsrange was obtained, and from information received afterwardfrom a Southern officer, it was foinid that the men could notremain at their guns after the showers of balls began falling,every thirty seconds, around them. The ordinary mortar-shell was the one used largely inall the operations. At Yorktown, the Confederates had an8-inch mortar with which they did rather indiff^erent shooting,but the moral effect on the Federal soldiers of the screechingshells was great. Accordingly, the Federals thereafter paidclose attention to the training of men for the use of a similartype of mortar, and at Petersbvug there was a good opportu-nity to reply in kind. The Confederate gunners, now feelingth
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