. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . BOMB PROOF. a shell with its fuse was seen approaching, would cry and the men would rush for the bomb-proof un-til the shell had exploded. These bomb-proofs were builtin the progress of the work from point to point, madewith heavy timbers, and covered so deep with sand thatshot and shell could not penetrate. It is difificult to describe the tremendous firing of oursiege guns, and the effects of the combined fire of our ownguns and that of the enemy. The very earth trembledwith the continual roar and vil^ration of the artilleryS
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . BOMB PROOF. a shell with its fuse was seen approaching, would cry and the men would rush for the bomb-proof un-til the shell had exploded. These bomb-proofs were builtin the progress of the work from point to point, madewith heavy timbers, and covered so deep with sand thatshot and shell could not penetrate. It is difificult to describe the tremendous firing of oursiege guns, and the effects of the combined fire of our ownguns and that of the enemy. The very earth trembledwith the continual roar and vil^ration of the artillerySuch was the effect that many of our men in camp de-clared that if there was a lull in the firing during thenight they could not sleep. 254. *; -1; / i-- SIEGE OPERATIONS AGAINST MORRIS ISLAND Many times I sat on the sand hills near the campwith hundreds of others, watching- this spectacular workof the demon of war; the scene was weird and fascinating,the operations covering a distance of several miles; thou-sands of men at work in the trenches in our immediatefront and hundreds of guns from our own and the en-emys works from many points, this spectacular viewcovers many miles in extent, extending from SullivansIsland on the north side of the harbor across to h\^rt Sum-ter, and on to James Island at the north end of ^MorrisIsland, were the rebel forts, bristling with guns of allcalibre. These with our own guns from the batterieserected by General Gilmore and the guns of our iron-clads in the harbor fought daily and nightly duels. In the latter part of the siege, calcium lights orwhat are now called searchlights were here used for thehrst time in w^ar—the bright intense light searching outthe enemy, leaving our own works
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