THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
85 
Work. Damage. 
Fort Quarantine .3 guns in open battery dismounted, and 7 carriages 
disabled. 
Fort Alexander. 3 guns in open battery dismounted, and 3 carriages 
disabled. 
Fort Constantine. 22 guns, all on terreplein , dismounted. Casemated 
guns not touched. The cheeks of 10 embrasures 
damaged. 
Wasp Eedoubt,. Nil. 
Telegraph Battery, ... 1 carriage disabled. 
In these works, therefore, the only effect produced by 1244 guns, firing 
30,000 to 50,000 rounds, was the dismounting of 28 guns and the 
disabling of 11 carriages (all in open batteries). 
Of all the works, Constantine, a casemated battery built of masonry of 
a rather inferior character, was exposed to the most severe fire, being enfiladed 
and taken in reverse by a part of the English fleet. But although the outer 
wall was covered with hits, in no case was it penetrated, and not a gun in 
the casemates was dismounted.* 
Naval attach on Fort Sumter. 
17. As regards the naval attack upon Fort Sumter; in the official 
report of the action by the Engineers of the Confederate Army at Charleston, 
there is a detailed record of the effect of the firing upon the fort. • I have a 
copy of this report, an abstract of which is given in the accompanying 
memorandum A, pp. 87, 88. 
The attacking force consisted of eight turreted ships (Monitors), one with 
two the rest with one turret, and the “ Ironsides,” an iron-plated ship of 
16 guns. The guns in the ship were 15-inch and 11-inch ordnance. 
The ranges at which they fired were from 900f to 1500 yds. from the 
fort. 
Fort Sumter was built entirely of brickwork, only 5 ft. thick about the 
embrasures, and at no part more than 11 ft. thick. 
The armament mounted on the faces of the fort exposed to attack was as 
follows:— 
4 . 10-in. 
2 . 9-in. 
8 .. 8-in. 
3 ... 10-in. 
2 . 7-in. rifled. 
6 . 42-prs. rifled. 
8 . 32-prs. 
mortars. 
The engagement lasted 2| hours, the vessels delivering their fire delibe¬ 
rately and successively, somewhat in the manner that our squadron proceeded 
* This detail is taken from Todleben’s account, but it agrees with the opinion formed by English 
officers who visited the work after the taking of Sebastopol. 
f Federal accounts state that their vessels approached much nearer to Fort Sumter than 900 
yards; but General Ripley, who was in immediate charge of the defence at Charleston at the time 
of the naval attack, says this was not the case. 
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