This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863
Only eight Confederate shots all day. Four guns were now observed at Battery Gregg — three Parrotts and a 10-inch columbiad — and the big Parrott on the northeast angle still lay with its breech toward Fort Sumter and its muzzle in the sand, waiting to be mounted.
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
An inspector’s report from the outposts on Sullivan’s Island on the condition of the 22nd South Carolina. Inspection reports are the most candid documents in the Charleston files: they say plainly what the troops were short of.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. 28, Pt. 2
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