Chapter 34:
- General Beauregard prepares for an attack upon Charleston. -- instructions given to General Gilmer. -- attack of the 19th of November upon Fort Sumter. -- orders and instructions given by General Beauregard. -- Gradual cessation of aggressive operations by the Federal commanders. -- plan of campaign drawn up by General Beauregard, to be submitted to the President through the Hon. Pierre Soule -- War Department does not take it into consideration. -- report from Richmond of an impending movement on the Carolina coast. -- General Beauregard's letter to General Whiting. -- how Lieutenant Glassel damaged the New Ironsides. -- Lieutenant Dixon's attack with the torpedo-boat upon the Housatonic. -- loss of the boat and crew. -- construction of the submarine Torpedoboat. -- its history. -- boats destroyed by torpedoes in Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. -- Landing of a Federal force at Jacksonville. -- General Finegan concentrates his forces. -- arrival of reinforcements. -- battle of Ocean Pond. -- General Finegan's report. -- what General Beauregard says of the battle. -- his difficulties in sending troops to Florida. -- he leaves for ‘Camp Milton.’ -- his despatches to the War Department.— cavalry withdrawn from South Carolina and Georgia. -- General Beauregard returns to Charleston. -- his instructions left with General Anderson. -- he demands leave of absence. -- telegram from War Department desiring his co-operation with General Lee. -- he accepts. -- he turns over the command of the Department to General Samuel Jones. -- his parting address to the troops.
Without placing implicit faith in the telegram received from Richmond, through Major Norris, Chief of the Signal Corps, wherein an immediate heavy attack upon Charleston was predicted, General Beauregard took every precaution to be prepared for such a contingency. He had a force of two hundred infantry held in readiness, nightly, at Fort Johnson, to be thrown as a reinforcement into Fort Sumter, and had secured, for that purpose, from Flag-officer Tucker, the services of the, steamer Juno, Lieutenant Porcher commanding. As an additional means of defeating any attempt of the enemy, either to assail Sumter or to carry Battery Simkins, he suggested that one or two of our ironclads should take such a position, at night, as would enable them to sweep the space between Cummings's Point and Fort Johnson and between the latter and Battery Simkins. He also advised
