. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ■ ■ COPYRIGHT, Itll PATRIOT PUI. CO. WHERE THE SAILORS ATTACKED—THE MOIM) BATTERY AT EORT FISHER ]n this photograph unexploded 12-inch shells can be plainly swn upon the beach, as they fill on January 18, 1865, in the terrific firefrom the Federal fleet under Rear-Admiral Porter. This was the land (ace; the portion to the left was the angle of the work. The land assault by the sailors on January 15th, was repulsed with a loss of some three hundred killed and wounded.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ■ ■ COPYRIGHT, Itll PATRIOT PUI. CO. WHERE THE SAILORS ATTACKED—THE MOIM) BATTERY AT EORT FISHER ]n this photograph unexploded 12-inch shells can be plainly swn upon the beach, as they fill on January 18, 1865, in the terrific firefrom the Federal fleet under Rear-Admiral Porter. This was the land (ace; the portion to the left was the angle of the work. The land assault by the sailors on January 15th, was repulsed with a loss of some three hundred killed and wounded. At the western endof the works, however, the army under General Alfred H. Terry succeeded in effecting an entrance and captured the fort that ONE OF THE HUGE TRAVERSES. Mill! THE BOMBARDMENTA traverse in an earthwork built perpendicular to the main work in order to limit the destructive area of shells. The traverses al ForiFisher rose twelve feet above the twenty-foot parapet, ran back thirty feet, and ezc led in size any previously known to engineers. ®ltr (Enuftfcrratr lEnijutrrrs •*•
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