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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Charleston: The Naval Bombardment of Fort Sumter – 2-6
News from New-Orleans: Operations of Our Forces Across Lake Pontchartrain – 6
Important from North Carolina: Failure of Two Attempts to Reinforce Gen. Foster – 7
The Late Battle in Tennessee: The Rebel Gen. Crosby and two of Van Dorn’s Aids Wounded, &c. – 7
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 7
Editorial: The Attack Upon Charleston – 7-8
The Iron-Clads and the Rebel Artillery – 8
The Hope of the Rebels – 8
The Real Aspects of the Case – 8
Necessity of Concentration – 8
The Old Story – 8

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Estimated in the terms of time, the trial was brief: but it was decisive. An ordeal of two hours served to prove that the defensive powers of the iron fleet were insufficient to withstand the terrible force of the offensive enginery of the works it had to assail, while the limitations in the offensive powers of the iron-clads took away all the advantage which might have been derived from their superior powers of resistance over the forts.

Okay, that was certainly, er, colorful. Now tell us what happened.

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