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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
on released, and constructed the work with men of usual height.--Davis's history of the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania, page 253. When the foundations were laid, the redoubt was piled upon it. It was composed wholly of bags of sand taken from Morris Island through the little creeks, in boats, during the nights. Under the gun platform heavy piles were driven entirely through the mud, into the solid earth, and on it was mounted a single 8-inch (200-pounder) rifled Parrott gun, which Sergeant Felter, of the New York Volunteer Engineers, named The Swamp angel. This gun was taken through the sand on a sling cart, or truck (see page 240, volume Il), and then floated on a raft of pine timber to its destination. It was thoroughly protected by the sand-bag parapet. In fifteen days from the time the battery was The Swamp angel Battery. commenced August 4, 1863. it was finished, and the Angel was ready to carry into the citadel where the rebellion was planned its messages of wrath.