Letter, 1863 December 17, Pratt (Folly Isle) to Major Brooks, page 3

TitleLetter, 1863 December 17, Pratt (Folly Isle) to Major Brooks, page 3
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Transcription[Letter, continued] [Request?] for a [????] commission in his Reg't [Regiment].  I think he would favorably endorse it.  I've done so.  I am now waiting for something to turn up.  Your 1st query "What constituted heavy fire-is how many shots pr [per] hour by [tonight?]" (Ans. [Answer]) If I was one of a Brigade of Sappers trying to push forward a Sap while the enemy with one Gun were firing every ten minutes with the Head of the Sap for the object, I should say thus I was working under a heavy fire-i.e. if they made good shots [????] on.  That was a Heavy fire the A.M. of the 23rd of Aug [August] that compelled Capt [Captain] [Sweizer?] to abandon work on the extreme left of the 4th Parallel-to be sure there was but one gun.  We had no experience whereby the word Heavy could be applied to musketry firing.  For 10 successive days on Chatfield there was a solid shot from James Isle alternated with a Columbiad shell from Sullivans Isle every 15 minutes.  Object Chatfield-good average shots too.

LocationsFolly Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States(32.66046,-79.9312)

TopicsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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South Carolina--History

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