. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . rd found. [332] The calm sunlight of April, 1865, is fallingon the northern face of the fort which hadwithstood a severer bombardment thanany other fortification attacked during theCivil War. This wall was across the fortfrom the one upon which the heavy Unionbatteries on Morris Island concentratedtheir fire. But many a shot passing overthe southern wall struck this rampartfrom the inside, making breaches thathad to be patched with gabions. Patchedin this way it continued to the end of thewar, frowning across the waters of thebay u
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . rd found. [332] The calm sunlight of April, 1865, is fallingon the northern face of the fort which hadwithstood a severer bombardment thanany other fortification attacked during theCivil War. This wall was across the fortfrom the one upon which the heavy Unionbatteries on Morris Island concentratedtheir fire. But many a shot passing overthe southern wall struck this rampartfrom the inside, making breaches thathad to be patched with gabions. Patchedin this way it continued to the end of thewar, frowning across the waters of thebay upon the blockading fleet and theUnion batteries. Thus it looked when,on February 18, 1865, Colonel Rennet, iacommand of the United States forces atCharleston, was rowed across from Cum-mins Point toward Fort Moultrie. Fortyyards east of Sumter he met a boat filledwith musicians who had been left behindby the Confederates. He directed one ofhis subordinates to proceed to Sumter andraise the American flag above the ram-parts—for the first time in four SUMTER ONCE MORE IX PEACE
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