Abraham Lincoln : une histoire : la pleine et l'enregistrement autorisé de sa vie privée et sa carrière publique . gee-works - au nord-est de Fort Moultrie sur Sulli-cars Island, distant de 1800 mètres ; au sud, theCummings Point batteries sur l'Île Morris, dis-tionnel 1300 verges ; à l'ouest, l'île de Fort Johnson, 2500 onJames lointain. Quelques werebuilt simplement pour s'opposer à la renforcer-ments dans le port câble ; la plupart de themwere terre-works. Deux ont été construits de woodand protégé avec fer à repasser fer ; un de ces hadbeen conçu pour servir de batterie flottante, un butproving en panne e

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Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . ege-works — to the north-east Fort Moultrie on Sulli-vans Island, distant 1800 yards; to the south, theCummings Point batteries on Morris Island, dis-tant 1300 yards; to the west, Fort Johnson onJames Island, distant 2500 yards. Some werebuilt merely to oppose the expected reenforce-ments through the harbor channels; most of themwere earth-works. Two were constructed of woodand protected with railroad iron; one of these hadbeen designed to serve as a floating battery, butproving a failure in this object, was now advan-tageously grounded behind a protecting sea-waU.Altogether there were from fourteen to nineteenof these batteries, mounting a total of thirty gunsand seventeen mortars, manned and supported bya volunteer force of four to six thousand men.The greater part were holiday soldiers, but amongtheir officers were a dozen or two formerly belong-ing to the Federal army and possessed of a thor-ough military education. To these the manage-ment of the enterprise was mainly confided.. GENERAL ABNEK DODBLEDAY. THE FALL OF SUMTER 49 Fort Sumter was a scarcely completed work, chap, iiidating back to the period of smooth-bore guns ofsmall caliber; its walls were of brick, forty feethigh and eight feet thick; it was pierced for onehundred and forty guns, to be mounted in twotiers of casemates and on the parapet. But whenAnderson inspected it on his arrival in Novemberprevious, the brick-work of walls and casemates ^ipSouwas still unfinished, and only a few guns were no^?ii?i86o.mounted. Foster, the engineer in charge, had, i^p?.7iT72!with limited help and materials, and in the faceof constant obstacles and discouragements, pushedthe work towards completion. There was now a total of forty-eight guns Aprinsei.mounted and ready for use, though furnishedwith very rude and insufficient appliances. Ofthese, twenty-one were in the casemates andtwenty-seven on the parapet. To ma

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