Facts relating to siege operations against defenses of Charleston harbor

TitleFacts relating to siege operations against defenses of Charleston harbor
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CreatorBrooks, T. B. (Thomas Benton), 1836-1900

CollectionsThomas Benton Brooks Papers

Descriptive InformationNotes by Major Brooks regarding the Siege Operations against defenses of Charleston Harbor, including information on earth works, bombproofs and splinterproofs, Parrott rifles, mortars, boat infantry, look intos, and shot proof parapets. Stevens Battery, James Island, Morris Island, Block Isle, and Folly Island are mentioned.

Transcription12; For artillery operations against earth works and rifled guns where projectile is large enough to disable the largest of the [????] if any are hit, at the [????] required is the proper size-anything large is disadvantageous. [???] firing into [????], in earth works it is [????] was the [????] of the earth work any [????]. It is his assault and garrison that we seek to damage-I think 30 pdr. Parrott rifles the proper size.

LocationsCharleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States(32.77657,-79.93092)

TopicsSouth Carolina--History
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Artillery operations
Fort Sumter National Monument (Agency : U.S.)

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