This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Confederate field guns hidden along the Stono at Legareville let the gunboat USS Isaac Smith pass upriver, then opened on her from three sides. Cut up and unable to answer, she struck. Her captured crew was marched into Charleston and the vessel was taken into Confederate service as the Stono — a rare clean win over the blockading squadron.
Official Records of the Navies, Series I, Vol. 13
At daylight the Federals opened with a 30-pounder, a 100-pounder and a 200-pounder Parrott and a 10-inch columbiad. Of 156 shots, 129 struck, and the south angle was their aim. An hour's work after dark repaired the injury. That was the pattern: knocked down by day, built back at night.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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