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| January 1, 1861 - Extract from Report of Operations
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FORT SUMTER, January 1, 1861.
Extract from report of operations at Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, S.C., for the month of December, 1860.
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The operations of the month comprise the organization of the messing and lodging arrangements for the party, the policing of the work, the putting all the guns and carriages in good working order, the repairing and securing of the embrasure shutters and the main gate, the rebuilding of the cistern in the east circular half bastion, and the commencement to rebuild the wooden banquettes in the half bastions. The work, with all the property that it contained, was forcibly taken possession of on the afternoon of the 27th, by the troops of South Carolina, an entrance being effected by scaling the wall at the circular bastion by means of ladders.
Lieutenant R.K. Meade, Corps of Engineers, in charge, was suffered to withdraw to Fort Sumter, where he reported to me.
Respectfully submitted.
J.G. FOSTER,
Captain of Engineers.
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