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- GLC#
- GLC02254.12-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 14 April 1863
- Author/Creator
- McCann, William Penn, 1830-1906
- Title
- to Richard T. Renshaw
- Place Written
- Hill's Point, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 36 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Mentions a change of plans in the attack on Hill's Point Battery. Reports location, activities and condition of several Union ships, including the Collier, Phoenix, Hunchback, Southfield, Valley City, Whitehead and Granite. Complains that "there is not a boat here in which we can mount a Howitzer to clear the channel of the rebel picket boats."
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