. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . . --. \-.\v\\\\\\\\\\\\v\vw. her heavy armor and big guns, was pounded into submission bythe monitors Weehawken and Naliant, and surrendered after astubborn defense. The many attempts to gain possession of Charleston Har-bor, that were animated as much by sentimental reasons as theywere dictated by military necessity, were crowned by at leastone success. Part of Morris Island was evacuated by the Con-federates on September 7th. The enfilading and breaching bat-teries in the swamps, together with the combined efforts of theironclads
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . . --. \-.\v\\\\\\\\\\\\v\vw. her heavy armor and big guns, was pounded into submission bythe monitors Weehawken and Naliant, and surrendered after astubborn defense. The many attempts to gain possession of Charleston Har-bor, that were animated as much by sentimental reasons as theywere dictated by military necessity, were crowned by at leastone success. Part of Morris Island was evacuated by the Con-federates on September 7th. The enfilading and breaching bat-teries in the swamps, together with the combined efforts of theironclads and other vessels, had not succeeded in the reductionof Fort Simiter. Every kind of invention was tried by the in-habitants of Charleston to raise the blockade. Floating mineswere sent out on the receding tides b}^ the score; many wereanchored at night in j^laces where the day before the Federalvessels had occupied vantage spots in the bombardment. On September 6th it Avas that the New Ironsides, directlyoff Fort Wagner, lay over a huge mine whose two thous
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