The Confederate Defence Of Morris Island Charleston Harbor By The Troops Of South Carolina Georgia And North Carolina In The Late War Between The States Classic Reprint

Author : Robert Cogdell Gilchrist
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ISBN 13 : 9781330900888
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book The Confederate Defence of Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, by the Troops of South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina, in the Late War Between the States (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Cogdell Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Confederate Defence of Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, by the Troops of South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina, in the Late War Between the States Skirting along ship channel, the main entrance into Charleston harbor, and thus commanding the only approach for large vessels to the city, is Morris Island: forever prominent in the history of the United States for being the site of the Battery that fired the first shot in the war between the States: still later for giving to the world its first lesson in iron-clad armor: and more than all, for being the theatre of a defence of an earth-work more stubborn and brave, of a siege as memorable and bombardments the most formidable in the annals of war. This Island is three and three-fourths miles long, and varies in width from twenty-five to one thousand yards. At its Northern extremity it is flat, and with the exception of a low line of sand hills is only two feet above high tide. Three-fourths of a mile from Cummings Point (where was situated Battery Gregg) the marsh on the West encroaches, leaving a narrow strip between it and the sea of twenty-five yards. Here was located the famed Fort Wagner. About two thousand yards Southward thence commences a range of hills of various height, stretching to "Oyster Point," the Southern end of the Island forming a secure shelter for troops. The Island is composed of quartz sand, which has no cohesion, and weighs, when dry, eighty-six pounds to the cubic foot. To its power in resisting the penetration of shot, and when displaced of falling back again to the very spot it had occupied, is due the comparative invulnerability of the works erected on this Island, advantageous alike to its defenders and assailants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.