Letter, 1863 September 18, James Wallace to Brooks [Verso]

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TitleLetter, 1863 September 18, James Wallace to Brooks [Verso]
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CreatorJames Wallace
CollectionsThomas Benton Brooks Papers
Dates
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LanguageEnglish
Letter to Brooks from James Wallace regarding the serving of the guns in the Naval Battery.  Wallace reports that he thinks the Navy Gun carriages are superior to the iron army carriages.
Transcription[????] made of wood have a greater friction surface when the gun recoils so that we do not have to depend on the compressors altogether to bring the gun up. I am sorry that you would not call yourself but I suppose that you must be full of [biz?]. I am going North myself in the [Arajo?] could you not wait. Yours; James Wallace; Ensign; US Navy [/Letter] Naval Bat. [Battery] Camp; Morris Isle, SC [South Carolina]; Sept [September] 18, 1863; James Wallace; Ensign US Navy; States in answer to inquiry; 1. No. rounds [fired from?] his 8" [????]; 2. Recoil; 3. greased andc [etc.] andc [etc.]
LocationsMorris Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States(32.71573,-79.89037)
TopicsSouth Carolina--History
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Naval operations
Fort Sumter National Monument (Agency : U.S.)
Physical Descriptions
Mediumcommercial correspondence
TypeStill Image
Formatimage/jpeg
Contributing Institutions
Held By Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
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Digital Identifiersmt_brooks507_014_002
Permanent Linkhttp://purl.clemson.edu/22C7547241B29223518952681B943DAA
Batch ID20180328174717
RightsU.S. Government Work Learn More

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