. The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson . ngled out for thefirst blow. The ram is pushing
. The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson . ngled out for thefirst blow. The ram is pushing swiftlyforward. The Weehawken reserves herfire. Rodgeis himself is sighting oneof her heavy guns. Her powerful an-tagonist is now within easy Weehawken opens fire. Rodgershas aimed well The first shot—a 15-inch solid—has carried away the topof the Atlantas pilot-house, woundedtwo of her pilots, and sent the vesselaground. In less than fifteen minutes,the Atlanta is prisoner to the Wee-hawken, Rodgers having fired only fiveshots in all. The Atlanta was badlydamaged, the last shot having struckher point-blank. So tei-rific was theimpact that it bent in the iron armor,shivering the twelve inches of liveoak and the five inches of Georgiapine. The Atlanta was afterwardstaken to Philadelphia and exhibited. On his arrival at Hilton Head, Gill-more found that he had an availableforce of near 18,000 men. After picket-ing a line along the coast, about 250miles in length, and establishing postsat different points, he could still count. CHAKLESTON HAEBOR AND ITS APPROACHES, SHOWING FORTS SUMTER ANDWAGNER, JAMES ISLAND, Etc., Etc. ^s^^-. ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER. 589 on an effective force of 11,000 men,mostly veterans. He had GG guns and30 mortals. Dahlgren had at his dis-posal the frigate Ironsides and sixmonitors, three of which were beingrepaired at Port Royal With thesemeans of offensive warfare, it was re-solved to renew the attempt on FortSumter. Gillmore proposed to seiz
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