This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
The dead lay in front of the work and in its ditch. Shaw was buried in a common trench with his men — meant as an insult, and taken by his family as an honor: his father refused every proposal to have the body moved. The truce parties worked the sand under the guns of both sides.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 1
“Three hundred and twenty-two shots (68 missed) fired at fort to-day; also 126 mortar shells (63 missed). This is the heaviest fire we have been subjected to since the bombardment commenced.” Four hundred and forty-eight projectiles in one day, at a fort that had already been reduced to rubble twice.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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