. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Thus a sequent story is toldin actual photographs of the siege opera-tions about Charleston. Quincy Adams Gill-more was graduated first in liis class at WestPoint. He served as an assistant engineerin the building of Fortress Monroe from 1849to 1852, and later became assistant instructorof practical military engineering at WestPoint. When the war broke out he hadabundant opportunity to put his learning tothe test, and proved one of the ablest militaryengineers in the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Thus a sequent story is toldin actual photographs of the siege opera-tions about Charleston. Quincy Adams Gill-more was graduated first in liis class at WestPoint. He served as an assistant engineerin the building of Fortress Monroe from 1849to 1852, and later became assistant instructorof practical military engineering at WestPoint. When the war broke out he hadabundant opportunity to put his learning tothe test, and proved one of the ablest militaryengineers in the Federal service. He actedas chief engineer of the Port Royal expedi-tionary corps in 1861-62; was chief engineerat the siege of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, fromFebruary to April, 1862, conducted the landoperations against Charleston, fought atDrewrys Bluff, and in the defense of Wash-ington against Early. On March 13, 1865,he was brevrtted successively brigadier-general and major-general in the regulararmy, and on December 5, 1865, he resignedfrom the volunteer service He was the authorof many engineering books and •y-i ■ I, «*£■ - ■■■■ -■ ■. I 7- THE PARROTT I\ BATTERY STRONG f OF REVttrtb CO. This 300-pounder rifle was directed against Fort Sumter and Battery Wagner. The length of bore of the gun before it burst wasIS6 inches. It weighed 20,000 pounds. It fired a projectile weighing 250 pounds, with a maximum charge of powder of 25 gun was fractured at the twenty-seventh round by a shell bursting in the muzzle, blowing off about 20 inches of the the bursting the gun was chipped back beyond the termination of the fracture and afterwards fired 371 rounds with asgood results as before the injury. At the end of that time the muzzle began to crack again, rendering the gun entirely useless.
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