Letter, 1863 August 28, Suess to Brooks, on connecting saps and trenches

• Main Author: : Suess
• 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:7C9ADE62D94BC3DE51C667C477B46600

Letter to Brooks from Suess recommending to connect all the ends of saps and trenches abutting on the beach by a trench, which would be furnished with a double parapet. This is because of increased apprehension of a flanking attack upon the right by way of the beach. Suess writes that he thinks the...