This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
The right wing of Battery Hays was finished except for two more 30-pounder Parrotts, ordered that day and begun that night. But for the previous night’s rain, Brooks recorded, the batteries would have opened without them. The next morning they opened with everything.
Major Brooks’ journal, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
“The enemy have put up two frame houses near middle battery; nothing unusual besides. Firing slow this morning. Wagner shooting at south angle; Gregg at southwest angle.” A corporal of the 32nd Georgia was wounded in the head.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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