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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 583 9 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 520 4 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 354 138 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 297 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 260 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 226 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 203 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 160 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 137 137 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 129 37 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) or search for Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) in all documents.

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Letter from Charleston. [Correspondence of the Dispatch] Charleston, Sept. 17, 1863. There has been but little firing here for the last four or five days. Gen. Gillmore has been hard at work, since he got possession of Morris Island, erecting batteries bearing on Sumter, the Sullivan's Island forts and batteries, and the city. You may rest assured he will make the most of his recent advantages. He is an engineer of rare abilities, and the sooner we recognize this fact and act upon it the better. Meanwhile Gen. Beauregard and Gen. Gilmer are not idle. Their active brains are busy, and the Argus eyes and Briarian arms of the army under their command are ever at work. It is said that James Island, which lies between Morris Island and Charleston, and over which the enemy must pass if he would reach the city from his present base is impregnable. I hope the same is true of Sullivan's Island. On the main land there is no danger. The harbor is not yet lost to us, an
From Charleston. Charleston, Sept. 22. --The enemy's activity on Morris Island, notwithstanding our fire, continues unabated. He is building a covered way from battery Gregg to battery Wagner. For two days past we have shelled his working parties with great vigor. The enemy is building a battery on Black Island.