This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863
From the salient of the Federal redan to the ridge held by Confederate pickets was twenty-five yards, with a strip of low ground between that flooded at spring tides — ground on which, Brooks judged, the sap could hardly be continued under a severe fire. Three Coehorn mortars were put in battery in the fourth parallel.
Major Brooks’ journal, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
A letter to Charleston headquarters: “I have been told that there is some demoralization among the troops on Morris Island. I am inclined to think that this proceeds from a feeling that Sumter” could no longer support them. An inspection was ordered to see whether matters had amended.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
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