Identifier: abrahamlincoln05nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ontrib-uted essentially, in various ways, to the furtheradvance of the Union arms. Simultaneously with the successes in NorthCarolina, other important victories attended themilitary and naval operations along the Atlanticcoast. The hold which had been gained at PortEoyal, South Carolina, and the adjacent sea-islandswas greatly extended and strengthened, notably in1862.11 the siege and capture of Fort Pulaski, at the mouthof the Savannah Eiver. Pulaski, like Macon, wasone of the old Government forts built for coastprotection, which during the secession period werefirst seized and occupied by State troops, and after-wards turned over to the control and use of theConfederate authorities. Fort Pulaski stood in astrong position on Cockspur Island, Georgia, com-manding both channels of the Savannah Eiver.It was a brick work with walls seven and a halffeet thick and twenty-five feet high, with one tierof guns in casemate and one en barbette. Theisland it stood on was wholly a marsh, one mile
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ROANOKE ISLAND 249 long and half a mile wide. The neighboring chap.xiv.islands were also mere marshes. The possibilityof reducing the fort began to be studied soon afterPort Royal was captured, and the work formallycommenced about the beginning of February. The 1862.ground to operate upon was described as a softunctuous mud, free of grit or sand, and incapa-able of supporting a heavy weight. Even in themost elevated places the partially dry crust is butthree or four inches in depth, the substratum beinga semi-fluid mud, which is agitated like jelly bythe falling of even small bodies upon it, like thejumping of men or ramming of earth. A pole oran oar can be forced into it with ease to the depthof twelve or fifteen feet. In most places the resist-ance diminishes with increase of penetration. Menwalking over it are partially sustained by the rootsof reeds and grass, and sink in only five or sixinches. When this top support gives way they go Report?down from two to two and a half feet, a

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