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Identifier: navalhistoryofun02abbo (find matches)
Title: The naval history of the United States
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934
Subjects: United States -- History, Naval To 1900
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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FORT MOULTRIE. into effect. His little corps of troops was drawn up at midnight on theparade, and for the first time informed of the contemplated movement.The guns of Fort Moultrie were hurriedly knocked from their trunnions,and spiked ; the gun-carriages were piled in great heaps, and fired ; andevery thing that might in any way be used against the United StatesGovernment was destroyed. Then the work of evacuation was begun.A small fleet of row-boats carried the troops to the entrance of the great,sullen fort, standing alone in the middle of the harbor, and made frequenttrips bringing supplies and ammunition from the deserted fortress. Alj
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BLUE-JACKETS OF 61. 575 was done silently : the oars were muffled, and the commands of the officerswere whispered, that no tidings should be told of the movement under way.Before sunrise all was completed ; and when the rays of the rising sun fellupon the stars and stripes floating from the flagstaff of Sumter, the peopleof Charleston turned their eyes from the starry flag to the clouds of smokearising from Fortress Moultrie, and comprehended that the war had begun.Newspaper correspondents and agents of the Federal Government, and theSouthern leaders, rushed for the telegraph-wires ; and the news soon spedover the country, that Sumter was occupied. The South Carolinians atonce began to build earthworks on all points bearing on the fort, and wereevidently preparing to drive Anderson and his troops out. Andersonpromptly telegraphed to Washington for supplies and re-enforcements, andexpressed his intention of staying as long as the walls stood. The Govern-ment was dilatory, but finally c

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:United_States____History__Naval_To_1900
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Dodd__Mead_and_company
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Massachusetts__Boston
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  • bookleafnumber:155
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