This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1862–1864
An affair near Battery Island. With the Stono open, Federal gunboats could work up almost to the back door of James Island, and the fighting that would culminate at Secessionville on 16 June had begun as a series of small landings.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 14
“The enemy have just brought a 30-pounder Parrott down to Gregg, to replace, I suppose, the one removed a few days ago.” The Confederate garrison tracked the individual guns in the Federal batteries the way a watchman tracks faces.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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