Copy of Brooks journal with notes attached, August 24 - September 7 1863, page 3

TitleCopy of Brooks journal with notes attached, August 24 - September 7 1863, page 3
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Transcription[Letter, continued] 3; Number of Emplacements built for guns and mortars:  Against Fort Sumter on the left 1; " " " " [Against Fort Sumter on the] right 7; Against Fort Wagner previous to July 18th 17; " " " [Against Fort Wagner] after " " [July 18th] 28; Defensive purposes 36; Total 89; Number of bomb proof service magazines 11; Splinter proof 7; Total 18; Number of Defensive booms 3; This summary includes ten emplacements for ordnance and one bomb proof service magazine built but never used.  It also embraces four emplacements for ordnance, one bombproof magazine, and 300 yards of sap executed under the direction of Lieutenant P.S. Michie, United States Engineers, Assistant Engineer Department of the South, who relieved me while sick during the first week of September.  This siege work, extending through a period of fifty five days, was chiefly done under cover of darkness and under a fire of artillery and sharpshooters more or less severe.  In its execution 23,500 soldiers days work of six hours each, were expended:  this number does not include the labor of preparing engineer material, which was not done under my direction.

LocationsMorris Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States(32.71573,-79.89037)

TopicsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
South Carolina--History
Armed Forces
Brooks, T. B. (Thomas Benton), 1836-1900

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