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Title: Ohio in the war : her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
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Publisher: Cincinnati New York : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ecity adjacent to the battery, among the residences of the wealthiest and mostaristocratic class. Another and another followed in quick succession, and theterror of the city presently rose to a frantic height. Hitherto she had watchedthe contest in her harbor from afar. Now, at last, at the most unexpected mo-ment, and from an utterly mysteiious quarter, came the shells of the Avenger,bursting in her streets and shattering her costly habitations. But whence came they? (iencral (lillmore was away beyond Fort Sumter,his heavy batteries nearly two and-a half miles from that work, and scarci^ly lessthan eight from the city. The navy ventured no nearer. The Confederateline of defenses stretched beyond Sumter. Wlumcts cjime these ill-oinc.ned mes-sengers, liursting through a line that foi* eighteen months had held aiinics and^eat fleets at bay? General Beauregard did not know, when he sconiliilly rdurmrd GeneralGillmores warning, tliat through all the energ3of the engineering and artillery
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QUINCY A. GrlLLMORE. 639 combat on Morris Island, the latter had been carrying on a distinct experimentfar oft to his left, in the ooz) marsh, abandoned as imi)racticable by the troopsof eitlier side. As early as the 15th of July, reconnoissances had been made toascertain whether there was any possibility of making this semi-fluid mud, overwhich men could not march, sustain a gun of ten tons weight, within shellingdistance of Charleston. The mud was found even deeper and more treacherousthan had been expected. It was so soft that the weight of the iron soundiiif-rod would carry it down half the depth by its own weight, and it varied indepth from eighteen to twenty-three feet. A plank thrown down on its surfacewould shake it for hundreds of square yards around as if it had been jell). Onthis surface experiments were conducted to discover its sustaining power. Forit was an essential element of the plan that the gun must be mounted withoutany use of obvious expedients like the common pil

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