. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. IN CHARLESTON AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT So long as the Confederate flag flew over the ramparts of Sumter,Charleston remained the one stronghold of the South that wasfirmly held. That flag was never struck. It was lowered for anevacuation, not a surrender. The story of Charlestons deter-mined resistance did not end in triumph for the South, but it didleave behind it a sunset glory, in which the valor and dash of theFederal attack is paralleled by the heroism and self-sacrifice ofthe Confederate defense,

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. IN CHARLESTON AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT So long as the Confederate flag flew over the ramparts of Sumter,Charleston remained the one stronghold of the South that wasfirmly held. That flag was never struck. It was lowered for anevacuation, not a surrender. The story of Charlestons deter-mined resistance did not end in triumph for the South, but it didleave behind it a sunset glory, in which the valor and dash of theFederal attack is paralleled by the heroism and self-sacrifice ofthe Confederate defense, in spite of wreck and ruin. PART IIICLOSING IN THE INVESTMENTOF PETERSBURG. ON GRANT S CITY POINT RAILROAD—A NEW KINDOF SIEGE GUN

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