This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Torpedo operations in Skull Creek, with a skirmish on Pope’s Island, ran from the eighteenth to the twenty-first. Both sides now took underwater explosives seriously; the Confederates because they were cheap, and the Federals because there was no reliable way to find them.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
Six monitors in sight; a 30-pounder Parrott being removed from Battery Gregg; and a hundred Parrott shells fired at the fort since eight the previous morning, thirty-one of them missing. “No one hurt and no damage.” Fort Sumter had become almost impossible to hurt with artillery.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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