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UNION NAVY REPULSED In April of
1863, the Union Navy decided to capture
the Confederate port of Charleston, S.C.
The decision was made partly because of
Charleston's symbolic status, partly because
it was a haven for blockade runners and
partly because the North now had a fleet of
new iron-clad fighting ships. The attack
failed, and after inspecting the damage
inflicted on his fleet by Confederate guns,
Adm. Samuel DuPont decided not to re
new the attack. Union Navy guns reduced
Fort Sumter to a pile of rubble, but Charles
ton was to remain in Confederate hands
until early 1865. This drawing from the
Library of Congress collection shows the
bombardment of the city. (UPI)
Union Repulsed at Charleston
By MERTON T. AKERS
UPI Correspondent
To Norlherncrs, Charleston,
S.C.i was "the nursery of disunion."
when the Confederates fired I "d ,a confidential clerk in the
on Fort Sumptcr on April 12, 1 Richmond government, wrote
iBfii ihat ii. ,ilnn,;1(1 nai. later. But the very inctfic-
i essential supplies, the result
of the first year's blockade
might largely have nullified
its effect for the last three,"
i Thomas C. DeLeon, a protege
of President Jefferson Davis
iency of the blockade at xhe
outset lulled the South into
false security.
Enterprise Misjudged
"The South misjudged-un-til
error had proved fatal -the
enterprise and grft of Yan
kee character. So gradual
were appreciable results of
this naval growth, so nearly
imperceptible was the actual
closing of southern ports, that
fiixi hf the masses ol the people real-
laughed it ; izcd n0 rca evil until it had
accompnsnea
of the Civil War started
Charleston ranked second
only to Richmond as a symool
of the Confederacy and sec
ond only to the capital as a
prime target to be hit.
In addition to its symbolic
value Charleston also was a
rich port for blockade runn
ing. By early 18U3 the Federal
blockade was strangling thJ
Confederacy. At
Southerners had
off. They said it never could I Ions been
be enforced along the vast At- ! acl-
lan tic and Gulf coasts, so cut J Partly because of Charles
up with streams, small har- ton's symbolic status, partly
bora and inlets. j because it was a haven for
"This reasoning had good j blockade runners and partly
basis at first and, had the because the North now had a
South made prompt and effic
ient use of opportunity and
resources at hand, by placing
Credits abroad and running in 1
new fleet of iron-clad fighting
ships, the U.S. Navy decided
in April 1863 to try to capture
the port.
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Admiral Samuel F. DuPont.
commanding the South Atlan
tic blockading squadron, had
assembled a formidable fleet
of ironclads. He had seven
monitors, Improved versions
of John Ericsson's original
ship which had fought the
Confederate iron-clad Merri
mack to a standstill in Hamu
ton Roads more than a year
before.
The Admiral had been im
pressed with the ability of the
new monitors to take punish
ment when the Montauk de
stroyed the C.S.S. Nashville
in the Ogeechec River south
of Savannah, Ca., while under
fire from Fort McAllister.
The new monitors carried
two guns-a 15-incher and an
11-mchcr.
The fleet left its anchorage
at 1:15 p.m. April 7, 1863 and
started up the main ship chan
nel to the Charleston harbor.
Fort Sumter was its chief tar
get, the fori which had with
stood a day and night of
bombardment in '61 before
surrendering to the South
Carolinians, commanded then
and now by Gen. P. G. T.
Beauregard.
Pushed Big Haft
Four monitors led the line
ot ships, the Weehawken in
front, then the Passaic, the
Montauk and the Patapseo.
The Weehawken pushed a big
raft ahead to guard against
mines.
Then came the flagship.
New Ironsides, with DuPont
aboard. It was a powerful but
unwieldy iron-clad ship, carry
ing 14 11-inch guns, 2 150
pound Parrotls and 2 50
pound Dahlgrcns.
Next came the monitors
Catskill, Nantucket and Na
hant. The Keokuk, a double-tur-re
ted "turtleback," brought
up the rear.
. "The day . . , was very
beautiful; there was little
wind and the sea was smooth."
Cmdr. C. R. P. Rodgers, Du
Pont's chief of staff, wrote
later.
But the going was rough for
the Federal fleet.
The first shot was fired at
3 p.m. from Fort Moultrie,
on the east shore of the har
bor. Fort Sumter at the
mouth ol the harbor then
I went into action along with
Battery Wagner on the south
and the others around the
area within range.
The Weehawken hit ob
structions the Confederates
had placed in the channel and
slopped. That threw the line
of ships into confusion. The
New Ironsides', a deep-draft
ship found itself with only a
foot of water under it and was
forced to toss out an anchor
so the tide would swing it
back into the deeper part of
the channel.
As it floated back into the
channel, it came directly over
a Confederate mine. On shore
the gunner charged with set
ling off the mine electrt -!!y
frantically tried to explode it,
But an ordnance wagon had
run over the wires on the
beach and he was unable to
set off the mine.
Fire and Hell
W li e n the Confederate
guns . . . were turned upon
the ironclads, the sight was
one that no one who witness
ed it will ever forget:" Rodg
ors wrote, "sublime, infernal,
it seemed as if the fires of
hell were turned on the Union
fleet.
"The air seemed full of
heavy shot, and as they flew
they could be seen as plainly
as a baseball in one of our
games.
"On board the Ironsides,
the sense of security the iron
walls gave those within was
wonderful - a feeling akin lo
that which one experiences in
a heavy storm when the wind
and hail beat harmlessly
I against the w indows of a well
! protected house.
"This, however, was not
equally felt in the monitors;
j for in their lurrels the nuts
1 that secured their laminated
plates flew wildly, to the in
jury and discomfiture of the
men at the guns, while the
I solid plates of Ihc Ironsides
gave no such trouble: and al
I though she was reported to
have been struck ninety-five
times, she was uninjured ex
. cept by the loss of a port
I shutter and the piercing of
her unarmored ends."
The forward Union moni
tors penetrated to about 1,400
yards of Sumter but short of
the point DuPont had desig
nated as the best position to
attack.
There they traded shots
with the fori. The Keokuk
steamed up and joined in the
fight. She advanced to a
point about 900 yards from
the fort and was hit many
times.
About 5 p.m. DuPont sig
naled his fleet to retire. "We
will renew (the fight) early
in the morning." he told his
chief of staff.
That night DuPont survey
ed the damage. He found that:
The Keokuk had been hit
90 times. (It sank the next
morning.)
Hit 53 Timet
The Weehawken had been
hit 53 times and was leaking;
the Passaic 35 times; the Mon
tauk 14 times without mate
rial damage; the Patapseo 47
times: the Catskill 20 times;
the Nantucket 51 times; the
Nahant 36 times and badly
mauled.
The Ironsides had fired only
one broadside and was unin
jured. DuPont decided the next
morning not to renew the ac
tion. "We have met with a sad
repulse; I shall not turn it into
a great disaster."
Although Navy guns later
shot Sumter into a pile of
rubble, Charleston was not
taken until it was flanked on
the land side by Gen. William
T. Sherman early in 1865.
Lectures Continue
Throughout Week
"It is Written" lectures are
continuing three nights week
ly in the American Legion
hall in Central Point, accord
ing to Duane Corwin, lectur
er. "David, a Young Hero,"
will be shown Monday night
and the lecture subject will
be. "The Mark of Two Fam
ilies." On Tuesday night the topic
will be "Baptized Embezzl
ers," and the film shown.
"David, King of Israel."
The same schedule will be
followed in the grade school
gymnasium in Shady Cove on
Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday nights.
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MEDFORD. OREGON. MONDAY, APRIL 8. 1963
Hospital Escapee
Cornered In Texas
Nacogdoches, Tex. - HOT -Bloodhounds
and a National
Guard tank Saturday flushed
out a criminally insane man
holed up in the East Texas
Piney Woods with five rifles
and shotguns.
The man, Ellis Whittaker,
49, broke out of the state
hospital for the criminally in
sane al Rusk, Tex., a week
ago.
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