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Identifier: charlestonplacep00rave (find matches)
Title: Charleston, the place and the people
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ravenel, Harriott Horry, 1832-1912
Subjects: Charleston (S.C.) -- History South Carolina -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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but of those ofothers. How well the cannoneers behaved, standing totheir guns under the most frightful fire. How the ladsinsisted on doing their share. Captain Heywards youngbrother of fifteen (Nathaniel) carrying powder for hisguns. How John Laurens cut up the rare exotic shrubsin his fathers garden to make fascines. How in a sortiehis aide Captain Philip Neyle was killed. Then mypoor brother was killed (Thomas Moultrie). And how,a huge shell bursting within ten feet of the powder maga-zine in Cumberland Street, they, for fear lest worse mightensue, took out at night ten thousand pounds of powder,and carried it to the vaults of the Exchange in BroadStreet, where they bricked it up securely, and althoughthe Provost Avas next to it, the British never discoveredit, and we found it there when we retook the town. One wonders if he remembered that other night, when 272 CHARLESTON like a party of mischievous bo^s they had carried powderthrough the streets, and hidden it from Governor Bull !
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The Old Exchange, Foot of Broad Street At last the trenches were not more than twenty-fivefeet from the walls ; Clinton had warned them that hewould not be responsible for what might happen to a town SIEGE AND FALL OF CHARLESTON 273 taken by storm, but they held out. Then came a night ofhorror. From one hundred and eighty to two hundred piecesof heavy artillery were fired at the same time, while mor-tars from both sides threw an immense number of shells. It was a glorious sight to see the shells like meteorscrossing each other, and bursting in the air ; it appearedas if the stars were falling to the earth. The fire wasincessant almost the whole night ; cannon balls whizzingand shells bursting continually among the combatants ;ammunition chests and temporary magazines blowing up ;great guns bursting, and wounded men groaning amongthe lines. It was a dreadful night. It was our last greateffort, but it availed us nothing. Three days before Gadsden had declared that thewomen would walk un

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