Note number 18, regarding fatigue details, page 1

TitleNote number 18, regarding fatigue details, page 1
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TranscriptionNote No. [Number] 18; Fatigue Details; The total number of soldiers days works of six hours each expended in the excecution of the work herein described is 23,500.  This does not include about 3,900 days work expended at the Engineer Depot and elsewhere in the preparation of material employed in these operations which was not under my direction.  Of the first number 5,500 were by the New York Volunteer Engineers and 18,000 by infantry troops from various regiments.  9,500 or more than half the infantry were furnished from Colored troops.  About 220 tours of duty were performed by the Officers of the New York Volunteer Engineers in the direction of this labor.  The "days work" of the infantry Soldier above mentioned is, as measured by the amount of work done, about one fifth that which is ordinarily accomplished by a Citizen laborer in civil constructions in a day of ten hours.  Over eight twentieths of the labor directed by me was expended in the operations against Fort Wagner, about seven twentieths in the establishment of Defensive lines and nearly five twentieths in the erection of batteries against Fort Sumter.

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