Letter, 1863 September, Engineer Office, Department of the South (Morris Island) to General Brooks, page 6
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TitleLetter, 1863 September, Engineer Office, Department of the South (Morris Island) to General Brooks, page 6
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Transcription[Letter, continued] 6; 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 of the Seccond [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 head 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, and rendered valuable service in the advanced parallels. (Captain S.C. Eaton was but a few days on duty on the work executed under my direction. He was chiefly employed on the extreme left.)  Lieutenant H. Farrand had chief superintendence of the earth work of the second and third Parallel throughout the Siege. His services in opening both were conspicuous.
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