...o discovery of these Federal works. So far from it, that General Ripley (district commander) reports, that up to the 8th or 9th of July the enemy, so far as ascertained, had constructed no works on Folly island , except to shelter his pickets from our shells. On this subject Major Gilchrist says, in his pamphlet on the defense of Morris island, himself a participant in that defense: It has alway...