(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE) Grimball William H Letter from a So

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Grimball, William H. Letter from a South Carolina officer in the Charlestown Harbor defenses. Autograph Letter Signed to his mother Margaret (Morris) Grimball in Spartanburg, SC. 3 pages, 10 x 8 inches, on one sheet; condition strong. With original franked and postmarked envelope. Fort Ripley, SC, 12 September 1863

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William H. Grimball (1836-1864) was a lieutenant in the 1st South Carolina Light Artillery. Here he describes life defending Charlestown in a very small fort built on a sandbar: "The place is so small that the garrison are compelled to be provided for outside, so they tied to the fort one of our old gunboats . . . for quarters for the men. You may imagine there is not much exercise." He also described the fort's defective ordnance: "the big gun on which so much reliance was placed has burst at the first discharge. The Yankee prisoners say it was offered to the US Government and refused. . . . It was then sold to us."