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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Vicksburg mine. (search)
reporting thirty-six of the strongest and most experienced were selected and divided into two shifts for day and night duty, and each shift was divided into Explosion of the mine under the Confederate Fort on the Jackson road. From a sketch made at the time. the foreground shows the Union sap near the White House, where stand Generals McPherson, Logan, and Leggett with three other officers. In the distance is seen Coonskin's Tower, Coonskin's Tower, according to Brevet Brigadier-General William E. Strong, w as built under the direction of Second-Lieutenant Henry C. Foster, of Company B, 23d Indiana Volunteers. A newspaper slip sent to the editors by General Hickenlooper contains the following account of Coonskin (Lieutenant Foster), which W. P. Davis, who was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 23d Indiana, says is substantially correct: he was an unerring shot, and wore a cap made of raccoon fur. From this he was called Coonskin the Seventeenth Corps through, and wherever he