Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-08-07
TIE SW AMP ANGEL.
The Labor Of Putting It Into Posi-
ton Before Charleston.
Recommending In the SWamp-Con-
struction Of the Platform for
the Concentrating Severn
Inch RiGcd Parrot.
TprOojlyn Tnion1

the swamp hngcr was put INTO POSITION be-
fore ChnrleAtOnH asked veteran 81 tho
engineers Of reporter
"Ivc read about it Scvcral times" said one
Of the lrJup.
"Wcll never read an account Or it yet
that wasn't crooked, - returned the engineer.
II was there myself and know tho whole m
side OF the tuhncgs' and III tel you JUS, how
Il waS. Con Gilmore was in command OF tho
,icgc of Charlc-tnn one day in the midm'in-
unr Of 1868 he sent Capt Michel now general
ut Wet Point, 10 zee whether thorn was any
1Gint on the coast where guns could hc placed
to attack Charleston Michel reported LINT
the roast WAS all swamp for three or TOUR
miles inlanA-rr'ling but mud, water, and
aluah forty Or Gfty feet deep. He had gone
half n ullc or 70 IN boat, making
vcry poor progress through the buruah"S,hhl
the stencil from the Carch-.cS Of animals
thrown into the H"alnp made him sick I'M
more wns in bush hut eating super with
Cob lnuw Gcn) ScrIcll when he got Michels
report He turned t. Scroll and asked Inn
whether J." thought it possible to get guns
ported IN the B""Inp. 1crrcll SAID b" thought
nothing was impossible fe called Lieut..
HarroId and sent him ~ rccoHottcr
itarrod was gone half the night and caIno
su.a Il wa, inpD..ibc to gct t!lc gun, through,
and ifrpoal,lc ~ mount them rvon it they
could be- got through rnIng hlg utmost a.
fprto hc bad only hccl n! J. 10 Ect between
Two and three mile, into the swn,u,. EcrrsIi
,aid il had got 10 be done IIurruil ASKED
hDY Inc was going 10 DO it, and sald n would
require men win, legs forty feet lDnr 10 Gnt
through that swamp. Wei, the project of
L.. 40. l fF1
the cnmu, ana the soldiers made lIonl FUn
nbnut it. lhry said that Dis, Dal-
rymblo ard Snow, two medical officers on
Gen. GilmoIcs stuif were appointed to splice
the legs Of our mon to yet thcm to the re
uuilcd lcugth. Next morning Coz Scrloll
to-. Lieut. Edwards with him md started 20
look at the awa!up fpl himself They got rs
long n plank ~ tucr. was in the camp nul
wndcd into the swamp, cacA holding one end
Of tsr plank The day was f,arhllly hot, the
work WINS terrible getting through tho ruslrS
and water plant, and thick, Shiny slush, md
the smell Of the swamp was act"niEg, but
they tcrsevorcd, working slowly out til they
,unc to a creek Here they were stopped
for n time. ms it had n considerable current
and was deep, but after winnie they got tho
plank fitted so that one held IT while the other
Thrl, with infinite inbor, they went on n milo
further toward Charleston.
runIly they got To- the waters edge four
t, Io.,,, n,, .Lo
'''' ,'"'' "''''' ''''' ga ,."'o'' i'''o 80"
81 'u"h W." '.pic ~ - li''c "t'' y n'''
she'll, and wrinkles nod spiral nurcolrs. They
took bcar,ug to the atocplc Of st Michacls
church IN Charleston al.d a.p'h"r bearing to
Tori Muu;:,ic and another 10 Fort johnson,
.nI ,nro,,,i ,I,,5,.ny, ,n.,,i,n II, ,rn s,y,,,,n
a. ,lI I, ,,,a,,,l. ,',,
i'.' "I'J "'' '''"" ''', VS. '''' ~!
"",hr 20 h'"'E IAN l. ana >" rc'ut''h, 'F'-
riuy llnyed out and dirty, but iull "f h"l".
Col ScrI n tDll Goa Gilmore that he
thought il JOS i;,lc to yet ,1in. int such posi-
to,, IN IN, ,vr,untI,n, ,Lr,, ,uIght lombard
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10Y '1',''"I n"H ','' "i7'''-''' '''u'S' -,
tI'iS pan nc estimator 'ha1 II ""nl'
require 5000 dayaa work To put Just
one gun into position tVr rc'korcl by tic
davis work Of on" man thcn--g 900 dny,
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l""''' "'r' WIS ~ '''0 ~" " i,'''"" '"'''
l"-cd 81 lhl'o l"''hh'''' u 'N''."l'h yer
i" PINE plank, two OF iI!r luycir OF PLANK
crossing while the uth"r t8yoi-cl them
,llurpnpily. all were To- ~, strongly spll,cl to.
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,i ~ a.,
''''', '''' '','. ''"' I",'o
ihE % h'l'y ln"hH WIZ" S"'iP " nus "''N'h
t"'nty lrct M" fhn Iind so E'ah u" T. p
cnme flush with the platform that WIS 10
surround 1t, this again WIS to be strongly
smiled
rh,,,uiIt ,,;l,ro =, t,,,, ,,,i,, or ,.,,..,,,,
1', . ~ " w.. 'I',v W ""','''p
WHERE 'o' ',r'r'i ""' '''", 't"ii''' n'''
surveyed, ana soldier rnilrd out lh' panhS
and log, and 1900 bags Of sand, and
the battery was built The work was
mostly Gune at riaLt, ami III, hardest