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The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman

CHAPTER I
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The Custom-House, Post-Office, etc., were at the foot of Broad Street, near the wharves of the Cooper River front.

At the extremity of the peninsula was a drive, open to the bay, and faced by some of the handsomest houses of the city, called the "Battery." Looking down the bay on the right, was James Island, an irregular triangle of about seven miles, the whole island in cultivation with sea-island cotton.

At the lower end was Fort Johnson, then simply the station of Captain Bowman, United States Engineers, engaged in building Fort Sumter.

This fort (Sumter) was erected on an artificial island nearly in mid-channel, made by dumping rocks, mostly brought as ballast in cotton-ships from the North.

As the rock reached the surface it was levelled, and made the foundation of Fort Sumter.


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