Major Brooks' Journal of Siege Work, Morris Island, July to September 1863, page 17
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TitleMajor Brooks' Journal of Siege Work, Morris Island, July to September 1863, page 17
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Transcription63; Sunday, August 16th. Today Lieutenant Colonel Sleeper, Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, with a detail of 30 men from his own regiment, is making gabions on Block Island. The same work is in progress on Folly Island under Lieutenant J.H. Harold New York Volunteer Engineers. Built a splinter proof shelter in rear of Battery Kearney for use of artillerists serving its guns. Continued repairs on revetting of Second Parallel. 360 lineal yards of wide and narrow splinter proof shelter, capable of accommodating over 700 men are finished, and the work of its construction is suspended for the present. Corporal Stinhiller, Co. D. N.Y.V.E. [New York Volunteer Engineers] assisted in its erection. Brigadier General A.H. Terry, commanding forces on Morris Island, requested today that a parapet be built sufficiently strong to shelter the brigade which will be stationed near the Beacon House as a reserve during the bombardment which is to begin tomorrow morning. The General Commanding approved the plan. Accordingly this night Captain S.C. Eaton New York Volunteer Engineers with an infantry detail of 300 men, built 750 yards of spinter proof parapet 6 1/2 feet high, extending from the Beacon House southerly, along extreme high water line. At the same time, Captain
TopicsSouth Carolina--History
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Armed Forces
Brooks, T. B. (Thomas Benton), 1836-1900
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Armed Forces
Brooks, T. B. (Thomas Benton), 1836-1900
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