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A Visit to the Cities and Camps of the Condederate States

A Visit to the Cities and Camps of the Condederate States

Ross, Fitzgerald

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150651105
ISBN13: 9781150651106
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1865 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. Before we left Charleston the Yankees had succeeded in taking Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg, but not till they had brought up their parallels to within a few yards of Fort Wagner, so that they could almost jump from their own works into it. They then cannonaded it for thirty-six hours consecutively, during which the garrison lost a great many men, and would probably have stormed it earlier in the morning, had it not been evacuated during the night, together with Battery Gregg; Colonel Keitt, who was in command, bringing off all his wounded, as well as the garrison of both places. They were to have been blown up, but by some mischance the trains did not explode the mines that had been laid. An attempt was then made to storm Sumter, ATTEMPT TO STORM FORT SUMTER. 129 but it failed signally, and the attacking party was taken instead of the fort. They had been confident of success, and had brought the identical stars and stripes with them which caused such a commotion at the beginning of the war, when it was first fired at, and which Major Anderson had been permitted to take away with him when he surrendered. They had hoped to plant it again in triumph on the ruins of Sumter, but it was no go, and the celebrated flag fell definitely into the hands of the Confederates. Whilst we were at Charleston, it became evident that the next great events of the war would take place in the West, where Bragg was opposed to Rosencranz, but had just been obliged to fall back from Chattanooga into Georgia. Longstreet's corps from Lee's army in Northern Virginia was being sent to reinforce Bragg, and an attempt was to be made to recover the ground that had been lost. Accordingly, on the 14th of September, V., Captain Byrne, an Englishman in the Confederate service, a...

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