Letter, 1863 April 22, Macaulay to Brooks, providing updates on the Companies, page 3

TitleLetter, 1863 April 22, Macaulay to Brooks, providing updates on the Companies, page 3
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CreatorMacaulay

CollectionsThomas Benton Brooks Papers

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Descriptive InformationLetter to Brooks from Macaulay providing updates on the Companies, including their locations and activities. Macaulay also reports that the Iron Clads cannot do what was expected of them, and that they are a failure. Macaulay writes that they have seen in the papers some account of a fight between General Gillmore's command & a body of rebels, and that Macaulay hopes Brooks escaped safely.

Transcription[Letter, continued] gramme [programme] carried out. One Batt of Eng is Comp's [Companies] "A", "B", "C", and "I" under Command of major Place landed on the 7th and immediately commenced the march to the Front arriving time enough to see the end of the Fight you will judge of the anxiety each one felt to know the result being aware that on the Iron Clads depended the success of the expedition, we fully expected to see the fight renewed next morning. From our camp we had an excellent view of Sumter. The upper portion of this Island is very like Tybee. Their [there] is a Goats point here and to reach it their [there] is a long stretch of open beach on which anything can be seen from James Island. The point is well adapted for Batteries having a [range?] of sand hills on the side next "Morris" but it is subject to a flanking fire from the point of "James" next Fort Sumter. We found on our arrival 3 small pieces with a Marine Artil Comp. and their [there] was landed 6 12 pd Weird guns. 3rd N. Y. [New York] Artil. [Artillery] Comp [Company] "A" was out 3 nights in succession and put the 9 pieces in position. The other Comp's [Companies] making the loads and we had even to help them to do that. Their [there] was also on the Island the 62 and 67th Ohio. 85th Penn. [Pennsylvania] 100th N. Y. [New York] and the 39th Ill. [Illinois] Another Brigade was landed to assist in the land attack, which was to take place at night. The Engrs [Engineers] were under arms and marched to the point, waited till near daylight and no infantry appeared next morning learned that all had been countermanded and orders came to evacuate the Island. The guns were brought back and we again embarked on the same [Str?] for Hilton Head, sailed but had orders to leave Comp [Company] "I" at Seabrook Island. All hands disembarked their [there] as their [there] was fortifications to be built. When we had got the camp comfortably arranged all hands in bed and asleep, orders came to evacuate Seabrook Island we again emarked and after some

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

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

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