. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . WHB:RE the sailors ATTACBCED—the MOrXD BATTERY AT FORT FISHER [n tliis photograph unexploded 12-inch shells can be plainly seen upon the beach, as they fell on January 13, 1865, iu the terrific fireTom the Federal fleet imder Rear-Admiral Porter. This was the land face; the portion to the left was the angle of the work. Theand assault by the sailors on January 15th, was repulsed with a loss of some three hundred killed and wounded. At the western end)f the works, however, the armj under General Alfred H. Terry succeeded in effectin
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . WHB:RE the sailors ATTACBCED—the MOrXD BATTERY AT FORT FISHER [n tliis photograph unexploded 12-inch shells can be plainly seen upon the beach, as they fell on January 13, 1865, iu the terrific fireTom the Federal fleet imder Rear-Admiral Porter. This was the land face; the portion to the left was the angle of the work. Theand assault by the sailors on January 15th, was repulsed with a loss of some three hundred killed and wounded. At the western end)f the works, however, the armj under General Alfred H. Terry succeeded in effecting an entrance and captured the fort that ONE OF THE HUGE TRA\ERSES, AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT ^ traverse in an earthwork built perpendicular to the main work in order to limit the destructive area of shells. The traverses at Fort?isher rose twelve feet above the twenty-foot parapet, ran back thirty feet, and exceeded in size any previously kno^-n to engineers. ©Itr Ol0uf?brratf iEugtur^rs
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