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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
be transmitted to posterity. In speaking of the defence of Charleston a prominent writer in the French Journal of Military Science states, that prodigies of talent, audacity, intrepidity and peserverance are exhibited in the attack as in the defence of this city which will assign to the siege of Charleston an exceptional place in military annals. Viscount Wolseley, AdjutantGene-ral of the British army, in reviewing some of the military records of the war in the North American Review of November, 1889, uses the following language: Were I bound to select out of all four volumes the set of papers which appears of most importance at the present moment not only from an American, but also from an European point of view, I should certainly name those which describe the operations around Charleston. For the instruction of those who are unfamiliar with the topography of Charleston and surroundings, I shall give a short introductory description of the harbor defences of this city in order to