num_pages: 364
description: Major Edward Manigault one of the commanding officers ordered by General P. G. T. Beauregard to document his unit's daily operations began a diary in July 1863 that would become one of the most informative records to survive the Civil War. Covering thirteen months of combat in one of the Confederacy's rare siege artillery units Manigault's journal offers a day-by-day and at times hour-by-hour account of life on the front lines. Especially notable for its description of artillery training Manigault's diary vividly depicts his unit's participation in such well-known engagements at the battle for Battery Wagner and the attempt to seize the U.S. gunboat Marblehead.
language: English
title: Siege Train: The Journal of a Confederate Artilleryman in the Defense of Charleston
publisher: University of South Carolina Press