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General Ulysses S. Grant
General U.S. Grant assumes command in southeastern Missouri. The command is located
at Cape Girardeau. Grant is an obscure General in a back water of the war. Not much notice
is taken at the time.
Minor skirmishing takes place in Western Virginia and Missouri.
The Confederacy continues to fortify their coast. Newly constructed forts guarding the
entrance to Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard, are now
preparing to mount their guns
Fort Walker mounts twenty guns and Fort Beauregard nineteen, but of this armament
Walker can use but thirteen, and Beauregard but seven against a fleet attacking from the
front. The rest of the guns are for defense against attack by land, or are too light to be of
any use. The heaviest of the guns in Walker are two columbiads, 10-inch and 8-inch, and a
9-inch rifled Dahlgren. The rest of the thirteen are 42, 32 and 24 pounders. Of the seven
guns in Beauregard, one is a 10-inch columbiad, and one a 24-pounder, rifled. The rest are
42 and 32 pounders; one of the latter fires hot shot.
General U.S. Grant assumes command in southeastern Missouri. The command is located
at Cape Girardeau. Grant is an obscure General in a back water of the war. Not much notice
is taken at the time.
Minor skirmishing takes place in Western Virginia and Missouri.
The Confederacy continues to fortify their coast. Newly constructed forts guarding the
entrance to Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard, are now
preparing to mount their guns
Fort Walker mounts twenty guns and Fort Beauregard nineteen, but of this armament
Walker can use but thirteen, and Beauregard but seven against a fleet attacking from the
front. The rest of the guns are for defense against attack by land, or are too light to be of
any use. The heaviest of the guns in Walker are two columbiads, 10-inch and 8-inch, and a
9-inch rifled Dahlgren. The rest of the thirteen are 42, 32 and 24 pounders. Of the seven
guns in Beauregard, one is a 10-inch columbiad, and one a 24-pounder, rifled. The rest are
42 and 32 pounders; one of the latter fires hot shot.