. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . so been arranged and begun for the defense of thecity proper, but no heavy guns had been procured for them, and none weredisposable. The floating boom was incomplete, and was destined to remainso. I never looked upon it as a serious barrier to the enemys fleet. Thedefensive line on James Island from the Wappoo to Secessionville consistedof a system of forts, redoubts, redans, and eremailTeres^ very injudiciouslylocated, except Fort Pemberton on the Stono and some few of the redoub
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . so been arranged and begun for the defense of thecity proper, but no heavy guns had been procured for them, and none weredisposable. The floating boom was incomplete, and was destined to remainso. I never looked upon it as a serious barrier to the enemys fleet. Thedefensive line on James Island from the Wappoo to Secessionville consistedof a system of forts, redoubts, redans, and eremailTeres^ very injudiciouslylocated, except Fort Pemberton on the Stono and some few of the were also two batteries on the Ashley River, for its protection and thatof the entrance of Dills Creek and the Wappoo. One of them had no guns;the other, at Lawtons, was armed with four 32-pounders, but could be of lit-tle use. The works at Secessionville, which were poorly devised and poorlyexecuted, were still unfinished. Their armament was two 8-inch naval guns,one 18-pounder howitzer, six 32-pounders, one 32-pounder rifle, two 24-pounder rifles, and two 10-inch mortars. THE DEFENSE OF There were four batteries on Sullivans Island be-tween Battery Beauregard and Fort Marshall, the latterbeing at the eastern extremity of the island, just out-side the limits of the map. Between Battery Bee andMoultrie-was Battery Marion, and another work, calledBattery Rutledge, was close to Fort Moultrie on the , near the center of James Island, will be found on the map of James and Folly islands. WhenCuniuiings Point was evacuated by the Confederates,Battery Gregg was named Putnam, after Colonel Haldi-mand S. Putnam, and a work east of Battery Gregg,and facing the main channel, was called Battery Chat-field, after Colonel John L. Chatfleld; both lost theirlives in the assault on Battery Wagner. The Hue of defenses constructed on the Neck to protect the city from a landattack on the north side, was made up of a continuous bastion line, whichwas not sui
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