The march to the sea : Franklin and Nashville . e was made, andthese works were easily modified so as to become an essen-tial part of the military defence. The Savannah River, from the city to the sea, is a broadestuary with small, scattered islands. Immediately in frontof the town is Hutchinson Island, much larger than thosebelow, being about five miles long and dividing the river intotwo narrower channels. Nearly half of this island is aboveWilliamsons plantation, and therefore was outside of the nat-ural line of defence above described. The lower half of it,however, was held by the Confeder
The march to the sea : Franklin and Nashville . e was made, andthese works were easily modified so as to become an essen-tial part of the military defence. The Savannah River, from the city to the sea, is a broadestuary with small, scattered islands. Immediately in frontof the town is Hutchinson Island, much larger than thosebelow, being about five miles long and dividing the river intotwo narrower channels. Nearly half of this island is aboveWilliamsons plantation, and therefore was outside of the nat-ural line of defence above described. The lower half of it,however, was held by the Confederate troops, as its occupa-tion was necessary not only to holding the city, but to thepreservation of a line of retreat toward Charleston. Im-mediately above Hutchinson Island was Argyle Island, tenmiles long, with a smaller one (Onslow Island) on the westof it, so that for some distance there were three channels forthe river. SAVANNAH. 45 Before Shermans appearance in Eastern Georgia thesea defences of Savannah had been the only ones of impor-. Savannah and Vicinity. tance, and after the fall of Fort Pulaski, in the spring of1862, these had been somewhat contracted, and now con- 46 THE MARCH TO THE SEA. sisted of a line of redoubts and strong detached forts alongthe interior channels connecting the Savannah River -withthe Great Ogeechee, from Fort Jackson to Fort , with the fortified islands in the river and a work ortwo on the South Carolina side, had been sufficient for theprotection of the town from expeditions by sea and naval at-tacks. They were armed with heavy ordnance, rangingfrom ten inch columbiads to smooth thirty-twos, with somehowitzers to be used in case of a direct assault. The ex-pansion of the mouths of the Ogeechee into the sea is knownas Ossabaw Sound ; that at the mouth of the Savannah isTybee Sound, and Warsaw Sound ! is an indentation halfway between the two. These, with other entrances alongthat part of the shore, were anxiously watched b
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