Copy of Brooks journal with notes attached, August 24 - September 7 1863, page 10
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TitleCopy of Brooks journal with notes attached, August 24 - September 7 1863, page 10
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Transcription[Letter, continued] 9; Whatever of credit attaches to the success of the operations above enumerated belongs chiefly to the following line officers of the New York Volunteer Engineers. It is just that I should here briefly mention their services, which are more fully recorded in the Journal. Captain Joseph Walker was highly conspicuous for his display of bravery and energy in advancing the approaches against Fort Wagner. During the nights of the 19th and 26th of August and the 5th and 6th of September Captain Walker being in charge of the sap, more than one half of the whole distance from the Third Parallel to Fort Wagner was executed by the flying sap. To Captain J.L. Suess belongs all the credit of building the Surf Battery and Seaward Defensive Barricade on the right of the Second Parallel, which formed one of the most important and characteristic features in our defensive lines. Captain Suess established the Fourth Parallel on the night of August 21st. He was severely wounded in the hand at the heads of the sap, Sept. [September] 3rd. Captain F.E. Graef, from sickness and duties elsewhere was not long engaged on the works herein described. He built the large magazine in the Second Parallel
TopicsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
South Carolina--History
Armed Forces
Brooks, T. B. (Thomas Benton), 1836-1900
South Carolina--History
Armed Forces
Brooks, T. B. (Thomas Benton), 1836-1900
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Digital Identifiersmt_brooks528_095_011
Permanent Linkhttp://purl.clemson.edu/710D5A4B8B83019617B872D389E0AD24
Batch ID20180328174717