This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
With Federal sharpshooters holding the third parallel, the Confederate marksmen were pushed back far enough that day work in the second parallel became possible for the first time. From this date an engineer officer was on duty there constantly. Sniping, not artillery, had governed the pace of the siege.
Major Brooks’ journal, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
“One hundred and fourteen mortar shells fired at fort last night, 19 missed; 51 shells from Swamp Battery, 39 missed.” One private of the 32nd Georgia and two enslaved laborers were wounded, one of them dangerously. The marsh battery was firing again, a year after its first gun burst.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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