This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Confederate marksmen in rifle pits in front of the fourth parallel were on lower ground, and so could see when the Federal loopholes darkened with a head and a rifle. An attempt to prolong the redan and flank them was stopped by mortar fire and by water filling the trench as fast as it was dug.
Major Brooks’ journal, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
Five Parrott shells, four missing, and twenty-seven columbiad shells. One private of the 1st South Carolina Infantry severely wounded and three enslaved laborers wounded. “Enemy did not do any work last night.”
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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