INSIDE SUMTER. IN ’61.

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By this time it was daylight, and the effects of the bombardment becamevisible. No serious damage was being done to the fort. The enemy hadconcentrated their fire on the barbette batteries, but, like most inexperiencedgunners, they were firing too high. After daylight their shooting improved,until at 7:30 A. m., when “ assembly ” was beaten in Sumter, it had becomefairly good. At “ assembly ” the men were again paraded, and the ordersof the day announced. The garrison was divided into two reliefs, and thetour of duty at the guns was to be four hours. Captain Doubleday beingthe senior captain, his battery took the first tour.

There were three points to be fired upon,— the Morris Island batteries, theJames Island batteries, and the Sullivan’s Island batteries. With these lastwas included the famous iron-clad floating battery, which had taken up aposition off the western end of Sullivan’s Island to command the left flank ofSumter. Captain Doubleday divided his men into three parties: the first,under his own immediate command, was marched to the casemate guns bear-ing on Morris Island; the second, under Lieutenant Jefferson C. Davis ,manned the casemate guns bearing on the James Island batteries; and thethird—without a commissioned officer until Dr. Crawford joined it—wasmarched by a sergeant 7$) to the guns bearing on Sullivan’s Island. Theguns in the lower tier, which were the only ones used during the bombard-ment,—except surreptitiously without orders,—were 32 and 42-pounders,and some curiosity was felt as to the effect of such shot on the iron-cladbattery. The gunners made excellent practice, but the shot were seen tobounce off its sides like peas. After battering it for about an hour and a half,no visible effect had been produced, although it had perceptibly slackenedits fire, perhaps to save ammunition. But it was evident that throwing32-pounder shot at it, at a mile range, was a waste of iron, and the attentionof the gunners was transferred to Fort Moultrie.

Moultrie was, perhaps, a less satisfactory target than the iron-clad. Itwas literally buried under sand-bags, thevery throats of the embrasures beingclosed with cotton-bales. The use of cot-ton-bales was very effective as againstshot, but would have been less so against :shell. The fact that the embrasures were ;thus closed was not known in Sumter -till after the bombardment. It explainedwhat was otherwise inexplicable. Shotwould be seen to strike an embrasure,and the gunner would feel that he had settled one gun for certain, but evenwhile he was receiving the congratulations of his comrades the supposed

THE IRON-CLAD FLOATING BATTERY.FROM A PLAN BY COLONEL JOSEPH A. YATES.

& The non-commissioned officers in Port Sumter William A. Harn, and James Chester, Corporalswere Ordnance-Sergeant James Kearney, U. S. A. , Owen M’G-uire, Francis J. Oakes, Charles Bring-Quartermaster-Sergeant William H. Hammer, 1st hurst, and Henry Ellerbrook; Company H, 1stU. S. Artillery; Regimental Band, 1st Artillery: Artillery: First Sergeant John Renehan, SergeantsSergeant James E. Galway, Corporal Andrew James M’Mahon, John Carmody, and John Otto,Smith; Company E, 1st Artillery: First Sergeant Corporal Christopher Costolan.— Editors.

Eugene Seheibner, Sergeants Thomas Kirnan,