Letter, 1863 November 3, Talcott to Brooks

• Main Author: : Talcott
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1863
• Subjects: South Carolina > History; United States > History > Civil War; 1861-1865; Artillery operations; Fort Sumter National Monument (Agency : U.S.); Morris Island
• Online Access: http://openparksnetwork.org/single-item-view?oid=OPN_NS:6B80F8C8355E6113901AE85BE8131A37

Letter to Brooks from Talcott, including detailed information on Parrott guns in Fort Putnam (Gregg), Battery Chatfield, and Fort Strong (Wagner). Facts are provided for each gun, such as the date of bursting, number of rounds fired before bursting, the number of pieces each gun burst into, and how...