The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . During the months mentioned,while the boys of the Third wereenjoying themselves on Edisto Islandamidst a profusion of fruit and flow-ers, day after day came to their earsthe booming of guns from the south,so regularly that it became almost amatter of course to hear it, the firstthing in the morning, and the lastthing at night. It was Gilmore thun-dering away at Fort Pulaski, whichwas destined to fall two years beforethe city for whose protection it wasbuilt. A regiment which aided largely An idea can be formed of the
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . During the months mentioned,while the boys of the Third wereenjoying themselves on Edisto Islandamidst a profusion of fruit and flow-ers, day after day came to their earsthe booming of guns from the south,so regularly that it became almost amatter of course to hear it, the firstthing in the morning, and the lastthing at night. It was Gilmore thun-dering away at Fort Pulaski, whichwas destined to fall two years beforethe city for whose protection it wasbuilt. A regiment which aided largely An idea can be formed of the sizeof the fortress, and of the strength of aregiment in war times, from the viewof the Forty-eighth on dress paradewithin its walls. A full regiment in1S62 usually numbered ten hundredand forty, rank and file ; for this wasbefore the Forty-eighth had faced theenemy on the battle field, conse-quently its ranks were full. Like all regiments organized in1S61, the Forty-eighth was in posses-sion of a first class band and drumcorns, neither of which was nesrlec- WAR PICTURES.
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