File:Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) (1890) (14576094298).jpg

Identifier: battlefieldscamp00abbo (find matches)
Title: Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863)
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis J(ohn), 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
Subjects:
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
seen enough to convince him that Fort Wagnercould never be taken by direct assault, and the tedious labor of aregular siege was begun. With shovels and barrows the troopsbegan to cut the face of the island into trenches, zigzagging backand forth from the water side to the swamp and approaching nearerto Fort Wagner daily. As soon as favorable ground was reachedheavy siege guns were mounted and the work of battering downFort Sumter with guns two miles away was begun. For seven daysthe heavy breaching cannon pounded away, firing directly over theheads of the garrison of Fort Wagner. About 450 projectiles struckthe fort daily, every one of which inflicted an incurable wound,writes General Gillmore. Large masses of the brick walls and para-pets were rapidly loosened and thrown down. The bulk of our firewas directed against the gorge and southeast face, which presentedthemselves diagonally to us. They were soon pierced through andthrough and cut down on top to the casemate arches. The shot
Text Appearing After Image:
IN A MONITORS TURRET. BATTLI-: FIKLDS AND CAMP I-IRI-LS. 345 that went over them took the north and northwest faces in reverseAfter seven days of this cannonade, Sumter was a mass of ruinseasily held by a force of infantry, but mounting, no guns and uselessfor offensive purposes. The Confederates had removed from theshattered structure all its guns, and mounted them in other parts ofthe harbor. With Fort Sumter now out of the problem before him, Gillmoreturned his attention once more to Fort Wagner. While pushin- for-ward his parallels and approaches with all possible speed, he bcthou^dithnnself of an expedient for forcing the Confederate commander to Sur-render Without further loss of time or effusion of blood. This planwas nothing more or less than to put a battery in position to bom-bard Charleston, if the Confederate commander refused to evacuateMorns Island. To build such a battery was in itself a most difficulttask. Between the Union works on the beach and Charleston wasa vast e

Note About Images