The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-10

2 as follows: Up to September <, Fog, Sumter had been struck S.6 3s times by the heaviest missiles known in warfare. From the 1Sth to the so<A of Octobek. f.r4, shets were hrcd by tAe iron-clxas. rruE the 18th Of October se tho d of Novernl Der there was fired a total of s.S6s xhst< On the sd the monitors fired slowly al long range and every one of the 10 sho, ssrcck the fort. Al this time the federals had gained fooshold on the lower end of Morris Island and ererted a strong bat ter from which shc, reached the fort. A, the close of the s,d day of the seige there had been Bred a, Sumter:
 >hot~ From land batierics 1893 From monitors s-I From modtar sehoonerS Iss-
 ioiai sssI
 Of this number ,.oS, struck the fort with more CT less damage. and the others passed over
 From the 7th of April. 1883. to the last day of November. same year, the feder- als threw IS 900 shot at Sumter. 7.Soo of which missed. After tha, date no record was kep, of the number. Day Tn and day out. night and day, for % days tho coniederates kept an accurate account of every shot which hit or missed and re- ported the nature Of the projecule.
 In seeking to find some ono Tn Charles. ton who could estimate the number of shots flred al Sumter from beginning 10 end. ran across a Junk-dealer who had purchased all the old iron picked up from around the confederate forts. He figured for few minutes and then said he had purchased enough b load over one hun dred freight cars. half of which had come from Sumter lie had then on hand enough to load twenty freight cars. and during the two hours l was with him al least 1000 pounds of fragments of shell. cannon balls and uneAploded shells were brought in. mostly by colorcd men.
 When the war closed. Fort Sumter was nothing but huge pile of brick and stone, heaped up as If great wall had fallen. Underneath this debris was con federate garrison with only two cannon s5;,:::: s.::Mi! s.-c.S enough ,o heat aff every attack by small boats. The records of war for thousand years pas, cannot ful-
 
 the flagstaff was shot away :, times, and eighty men lost their lives in replacing il. Nothing was lei, of the tor, bu, the lower bonlb-proofs. and the debris was in some places twenty-five feet thick. since the war the government has spent a million dollars there. and vel the spo, to-day IS simply sand pile. lnclosed by wall ten or twelve feet high, with eight or ten guns in position to command the entrance to the harbor. It was under constant bom- bardrent for over 500 days, and was as saulted again and again, and ye, ii fell into federal hands only after Sherman's $ movements made it's evacuation :, matter of policy.
 Behind he fou-that ls on the Charles ton side-,s middle ground or flat which is uncovered at low tide. In May last. seventeen long years after the last shot of war was fired. saw more than a score of oolored men on the sandy flat al low ude probing with long iron rods for the shot and shell which had missed the fort. Some were dug up from depth of four feet and grea, shells which two men could hardly lift were placed in row boats to be taken 10 he junk dealers. From this flat. which does not comprise an acre in extent enough solid sho, and uneA- ploded shell have been recovered to make up a freight train of twenty cars,
 |, is the most cur,ous thing abou, war tn; while single bullet may nov. and then kill an enemy who thinks himself safely sheltered. hours of the most terrific bonn bardment may no, destroy one single life. During the two daysI bomoar,imens- tn October, when I.iis shots were flung at the iort. not one single person WAS even wounded, although nearly l.coo missiles struck the walls or fell within.
 Onll one man. so far as can be found by the records, was ever struck by ulis- sic entire On one occasion an officer who stood on the parapet directing the planting of a new lag staff. vas struck by d S-inch shell which exploded on the IT, stant In no other w.y could human beng have been 90 thoroughly wiped oii the face Of the earth. Three or four elo's of blood. the ent of nnger and bloody lock of hair were all tha. could he found of the victim.
 The heavles, loss of life occurred one eyenlng m lsS+ Thirteen coniedefatrs souyh. shelter from he fiye af tte rlnnl- ;ars ln a Drick bofhh- -praoi or,,ra ed | year before. \ soo-pound Parrot shei from one of fhe feet struck h such 4 manner IS to cave n the brick roof or ;he men. md every one of them were crushed to death. As near as could te figured by those n the fort; one mar was wounded for every GOO pounds O; metal thrown, and one killed for every 3.Scy1 pounds By this figuring at lcas; thirty Soo-pound shells were thrown for every man killed. Placing ;he cos; al the low- est ngure. and the fcderals paid al leas, Zoo in cash for every death in the for. The operations around Charleston. d. rectiy aImed at Sumter. cost the federal government from S2o.ooo.ooo to Se,.ooo.- ooo and the loss Of 10000 lives.
 On the night of September ?. 1893, after the fort had been struck alfnos, 6,ooo times. and when ii appeared to the federzls more like brick pile than fort an assault was made b, 500 men ln small boats. The night being dark many of Jhe men had landed before any alarm was given The manner in uhifh the