Posted on Texas Civilian Yahoo list July 2009 by Vicki Betts
Hey, if you happen upon a beached blockade runner on Sullivan's Island, SC, there's no telling what you will find...
Battery Marion, Sullivan’s Island ,}
February 2, 1864.}
Friend M:--When I closed my last letter to you (Sunday last), we had, up to that time, enjoyed comparative quiet. Since then the Yankees have opened a terrific fire on Sumter, interspersed now and then by an occasional shell at our batteries on Sullivan’s Island. . . .
It would do your heart good to take a look in our little shanties to-day. Bunches of bananas, oranges, pickles, coffee, tea, sardines, lobsters, condensed milk in cans, sweetened and ready for use, mustard, pepper, beef, etc., etc., and for a while we will live as princes. . .
Hey, if you happen upon a beached blockade runner on Sullivan's Island, SC, there's no telling what you will find...
Battery Marion, Sullivan’s Island ,}
February 2, 1864.}
Friend M:--When I closed my last letter to you (Sunday last), we had, up to that time, enjoyed comparative quiet. Since then the Yankees have opened a terrific fire on Sumter, interspersed now and then by an occasional shell at our batteries on Sullivan’s Island. . . .
It would do your heart good to take a look in our little shanties to-day. Bunches of bananas, oranges, pickles, coffee, tea, sardines, lobsters, condensed milk in cans, sweetened and ready for use, mustard, pepper, beef, etc., etc., and for a while we will live as princes. . .
