This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863
Ripley’s indorsement on a report from the harbor works: everything recommended had already been ordered. The Confederate defense of Charleston in August 1863 was a race between engineering and artillery, and engineering was just keeping up.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
Repairs in the defensive howitzer battery on the right of the second parallel: two Wiard field guns there had proved more destructive to their own platforms and embrasures than any field guns Brooks had seen. Otherwise the day was silent — “scarcely a gun has been heard.”
Major Brooks’ journal, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
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