This day in Charleston
2 entries · 1863–1864
Major Manigault complained again in his journal of the bad quality of the shell fuzes, and reported the Marsh Battery repaired and its gun no longer visible. Confederate signal operators on Sullivan’s Island intercepted a Federal dispatch arranging for the New Ironsides to hoist a red flag when she began rapid fire “at the moment of assault to-morrow at about 9 o’clock.”
Journal of Operations in Charleston Harbor, OR I, 28, Pt. 1
Thirty-five Parrott shells during the night. “The whole detachment of Thirty-second Georgia was relieved last night by 5 officers, 190 men, under Captain Phillips; 120 negroes also arrived and relieved those here.” Fort Sumter's working force was as large as its garrison, and it was rotated the same way.
Fort Sumter post returns, OR I, 35, Pt. 1
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