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CreatorBrooks, T. B. (Thomas Benton), 1836-1900

CollectionsThomas Benton Brooks Papers

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TranscriptionSept. [September] 6th 1863; at about 1400 yards distant; A boat expedition for the capture of Battery Gregg failed from the grounding of some of the boats, delaying them until it was too late to make the attack. Capt. [Captain] Jos. [Joseph] Walker was on duty from 7 o'c P.M. Sept. [September] 6 to 5 o'c A.M. Sept. [September] 7. He continues a branch of the sap to the ditch on the left of Fort Wagner, striking at the angle of the Salient. Also a branch parallel with the sea face nearly to the ditch. He removed a formidable obstruction from the ditch on the sea-face formed with pointed stakes firmly planted in the foot of the counterscarp, with their points about 2 ft. [feet] below the crest and having boarding pikes or spears inserted between the stakes. The sap was then extended along the counterscarp of the seaface. Finding a [????] party entering the Fort he in company with Capt. [Captain] Pratt 55 Mass. [Massachusetts?] [????] the flag which had been used at the head of the sap upon the parapet of the Fort at about 3 o'c A.M. He then proceeded with a party of negro troops armed with the spears taken from the ditch to battery Gregg which he found also evacuated.

LocationsFort Wagner (historical), Charleston County, South Carolina, United States(32.7375,-79.87204)

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

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