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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 43 Charleston . (search)
Chapter 43: military operations at Charleston.
The defence of Charleston against a demonstration by land and sea was the most noteworthy event of the summer of 1863.
Foiled in their naval attack in April, the next effort was to occupy Morris Island and reduce Fort Sumter.
Owing to the lack of diligence on the part of General Beauregard, General Gilmore secretly placed in battery 47 pieces of artillery in close vicinity to the Confederate pickets.
On July 10th, an assaulting column 2,500 strong crept up Folly River; the iron-clad fleet occupied the main ship channel off Morris Island.
Axemen felled the interposing trees, and the concealed battery opened fire on the Confederate lines.
The garrison was on the alert.
Just at break of day on the IIth, the Seventh Connecticut regiment charged the works, and went over the outer line, through a terrible fire from the Confederate rifles.
The fort opened on them with three howitzers, and they were routed.
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