. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . h to risk and accident, with our stake onthe issue immeasurably greater than the enemys. These maxims unmistak-ably point to the necessity of depending mainly upon those agencies, exclu-sively our own, which cannot be neutralized or duplicated by our antagonist,and will therefore always keep him at disadvantage, to wit: permanent shore-batteries and their accessory channel torpedoes. Auxiliary rams, torpedo-boats, submarine guns, and other forms of naval power may in great measure
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . h to risk and accident, with our stake onthe issue immeasurably greater than the enemys. These maxims unmistak-ably point to the necessity of depending mainly upon those agencies, exclu-sively our own, which cannot be neutralized or duplicated by our antagonist,and will therefore always keep him at disadvantage, to wit: permanent shore-batteries and their accessory channel torpedoes. Auxiliary rams, torpedo-boats, submarine guns, and other forms of naval power may in great measurebe counterbalanced by others of like character from beyond the seas. Indeed,all naval power possessing sea-going qualities may be neutralized main reliance, after all, must be upon shore-batteries and channeltorpedoes, and the combined strength of these must be as great as if no float-ing auxiliary aid were employed. Otherwise, when these auxiliaries fail, noadequate defense would remain, and the position would be lost. THE MARSH BATTERY ARMED WITH MORTARS, AFTER THE EXPLOSION OF THE SWAMP THE SWAMP ANGEL. BY WILLIAM S. STRYKEE, BREVET LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, TJ. S. V., A. D. C. TO GENERAL GILLMORE. THE Confederate attack on Fort Sumter markedthe beginning, and the second and third bom-bardments by the Union guns the middle period ofthe civil war. Morris Island and Folly Island, twolow sand-reefs, constitute the southerly bounds ofthe outer harbor of the city of Charleston. MorrisIsland, which is nearly four miles long, containsabout four hundred acres of sand dunes and saltmarshes; the portion of the island lying towardJames Island being formed almost entirely of verysoft morasses, and traversed by deep bayous andcrooked creeks in every direction. The Union troops under Major-General QuincyA. Gillmore, the Tenth Army Corps, in the earlymorning of July 10th, 1863, crossed Light-houseInlet from Folly Island and captured a large por-tion of Morris Island. [Seep.
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