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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 45 (search)
er and Gregg has been annoying, especially upon our communication by steamer between Fort Sumter and Cummins' Point. The casualties which have occurred from the twentieth to the thirty-first of July, inclusive, have been thirteen killed and forty-nine wounded. I have the honor to enclose the returns and lists. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. S. Ripley, Brigadier-General, commanding. headquarters Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, Charieston, S. C., August 7, 1863. Respectfully forwarded for the information of the War Department. In view of the possibility that Batteries Wagner and Gregg, which are only outworks, mounting respectively twelve and three guns, might fall under the concentrated fire of the enemy's numerous and powerful land and naval batteries, I determined, immediately after the fall of the south end of Morris Island into the possession of the enemy to establish a circle of batteries from Legare's Point, on Schooner Creek, James