This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
The parapet of Battery Brown was finished and the platforms begun; a lookout of sandbags went up on the big magazine, and — the journal notes it as necessary — a splinter-proof latrine on the magazine’s west side. Everything a man did on Morris Island in August 1863 had to be done under overhead cover.
Major Brooks’ journal, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
“Captain Johnson, engineer, has been severely, though not mortally, wounded in the head. I will send him up immediately in my boat. Have ambulance at Venning's Wharf.” Every wounded man at Fort Sumter went to Charleston by rowboat, and somebody had to be told to meet the boat.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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