. History of the American Civil War . en made for resistance. Therewere only 700 cartridges. No means of pointing theguns properly were at hand; they could be fired only byguess. The garrison had no bread; the rice had been ac-cidentally mixed with fragments of glass through theshattering of some window-panes. The wooden barrackshad not been removed. So little prevision had been ex- 62 STRENGTH OF THE ASSAILANTS. [Sect. VI I. ercisecl that tlie sptxre material which coukl have beenused for that purj^ose had not been turned into cartridgebags. For many months the assailants had been permitted t
. History of the American Civil War . en made for resistance. Therewere only 700 cartridges. No means of pointing theguns properly were at hand; they could be fired only byguess. The garrison had no bread; the rice had been ac-cidentally mixed with fragments of glass through theshattering of some window-panes. The wooden barrackshad not been removed. So little prevision had been ex- 62 STRENGTH OF THE ASSAILANTS. [Sect. VI I. ercisecl that tlie sptxre material which coukl have beenused for that purj^ose had not been turned into cartridgebags. For many months the assailants had been permitted coiistruct their works unmolested. Theyassaiiaats. • |-^^^:^ ^-^^^y -^^ batteiles of 30 licavy guns and 17 mortars which they could bring into play. One ofthese batteries on Morris Island was sheathed with rail-road iron, and a floating structure Avas protected in thesame manner. It was intended to be used as a batterino;raft, but, being found unsuitable, was grounded on Sulli-vans Island and used as a fixed THE HARBOR OF CHARLESTON. At the expiration of the notified hour fire was open-ed on the fort from a battery on James Island. Soon Chap. XXXVI. ] BOMBARDMENT OF THE FORT. (53 Fire opened on afterward all the guns were in ojoeration. the fortress, jj-^ ^.j^g coursc of thirty-four hours there were thrown into the work S3G0 shot and 980 shell. There were about 3000 men engaged, and 4000 or 5000 in reserve. Fort Sumter made no rej^ly for nearly three hours. At and answered ^ oclock ou Friday moming, April 12th, ^y^^ 1861, Captain Abner Doubleclay fired the first shot in the Civil War in defense of the American erovernment. It was very soon found that, in consequence of the se-But the means of ^^^rlty of the Confederate vertical fire, thedefense fail. barbctte guus—froui which alone, under thecircumstances, shell coukl be thrown—could not be was restricted to his lower tier. In five hourshe had exhausted his cartridges, and new ones h
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