. The Third New Hampshire and all about it . Third NewHampshire Volunteers [The italics are mine. — ], and of the Volunteer Engineers, made their preparations to putthe gun in place. . During the night of 21 Aug. ... a mockbattery was built by Lieut. N. M. Edwards and Lieut. Hartmann,to draw the fire of the enemy .... the device was eminently suc-cessful. Col. Serrell further reports that he had made a specialexamination of the battery, which had been reported as in an unsat- 372 THIRD NEW HAMPSHIHE REGIMENT. [SejU. 63. isfactory condition, and found that the gun had slidden
. The Third New Hampshire and all about it . Third NewHampshire Volunteers [The italics are mine. — ], and of the Volunteer Engineers, made their preparations to putthe gun in place. . During the night of 21 Aug. ... a mockbattery was built by Lieut. N. M. Edwards and Lieut. Hartmann,to draw the fire of the enemy .... the device was eminently suc-cessful. Col. Serrell further reports that he had made a specialexamination of the battery, which had been reported as in an unsat- 372 THIRD NEW HAMPSHIHE REGIMENT. [SejU. 63. isfactory condition, and found that the gun had slidden to the rear20 inches, caused by the mischievous removal of some part; but aremedy had been applied by spiking heavy cleats on to the the bursting of tlae Swamp Angel, no other guns Averemounted in this battery till 8 Sept., the day following the evacuationof Wagner, when two 10-inch seacoast mortars were placed in it forthe purpose of drawing the fire of the James Island batteries (rebel),and were called the Marsh msmm angec - trenton. RE-ENFORCE REMflVtO SEfORE MOUNTINC. It is reported to have taken 2,000 men 9 nights to get thefewamp Angel into its position. The gun was cast at the WestPoint Foundry, Cold Springs, N. Y. (foundry number 585). Gen. Beauregard protested (22 Aug.) against this mode ofwarfare, and said so to Gen. Gillmore, by letter, under flag of characterized the missiles as the most destructive ever used inwar, and said, they are being fired into a city filled with sleepingwomen and children. The British Consul also protested, and re-quested Gillmore to cease shelling British subjects (request declined). Sept. 63.] THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 373 [By M Quad, in Field, Fort and Fleet.] .... Once landed on Morris Island, Gillmore Avas there to stay. Hequickly brought over mortars and cannon, intrenched, and there he that his last assault on Wagner was a blunder has been admitted;but there were mitigating circumsta
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