This day in Charleston

August 11

2 entries · 1863–1864

1863Morris Island

Making gabions on Folly Island

Quiet, as usual after heavy firing. Up to this point no fascines or gabions had been used on the right, and there were few in the department; their manufacture, with sap-rollers, was begun on Folly Island by a detachment of engineers. Wicker baskets full of sand were about to become the most important item of supply on this coast.

Major Brooks’ journal, OR I, 28, Pt. 1

1864Fort Sumter

Eighty-nine shots, no casualties

“Eighty-nine shots fired at fort, 9 missed; 75 mortar shells, 20 missed. No casualties.” A hundred and sixty-four projectiles in a day, and nobody hurt — the measure of how deeply the garrison had dug in.

Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1

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