. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . atteries were inoperation, each mortar firing at fifteen-minute intervals, and the guns fromtwo to three times as rapidly. The enemy replied vigorously, though at firstnot very accurately, with his barbette and casemate guns, following up our line as the batteries successivelydisclosed their position. It appearedsubsequently that he knew the exactposition of only two of our batteries—Nos. 5 and 6, which had been establishedwith no special attempt at 1 oclock in the
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . atteries were inoperation, each mortar firing at fifteen-minute intervals, and the guns fromtwo to three times as rapidly. The enemy replied vigorously, though at firstnot very accurately, with his barbette and casemate guns, following up our line as the batteries successivelydisclosed their position. It appearedsubsequently that he knew the exactposition of only two of our batteries—Nos. 5 and 6, which had been establishedwith no special attempt at 1 oclock in the afternoon it be-came evident that, unless our gunsshould suffer seriously from the ene-mys fire, a breach would be effected:with a glass it could be seen that therifled projectiles were surely eating theirway into the scarp of the pan-coupe andadjacent south-east face. When the fir-ing ceased for the night, after nine anda half hours duration, the commence-ment of a breach was plainly visible. Itwas equally manifest, to the surpriseand disappointment of all experiencedofficers present, that the 13-inch mor-. BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL HORACE PORTER.^FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. \ General Horace Porter, in a letter to theeditors, records the subjoined incidents of thesiege : One of the regiments which was assigned to dutyon Tybee Island, and participated prominently inthe siege operations, was the 46th New York, com-posed entirely of Germans. There was the savorof German cooking in their mess, the sound of Ger-man songs in their camp; all the commands weregiven in German at drill, and the various calls,such as reveille and tattoo, were the same as thoseused in the German army. We were at this timevery anxious to get some information about theconstruction of the interior arrangements for thedefense of the fort, and one morning a strappingfellow in the regiment, who looked as if he mighthave been a lineal descendant of a member ofFrederick the Greats Potsdam Guards, becameenthusiastic in th
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