E. K. Pliny Bryan to Thomass Jordan, July 18, 1863

Brig. Gen. THoMAsS JORDAN, Chief of Staff: GENERAL: The battery on Shell Point is sufficiently completed to

receive the guns. Hands are at work on it to-night, and will finish it by 10 o’clock to-morrow. One 10-inch gun is mounted, the other

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10-inch gun was being mounted at dark. It will be ready to-night or to-morrow early. There is still some difficulty about the platform for the Brooke gun. The batteries for the mortars in the rear of Shell Point will soon be ready. Soldiers will work on them to-night. The engineer informed me that by Monday next he would have the chambers ready for the gun in rear of Fort Johnson, and the one to be placed in an old battery between Johnson and Shell Point. I saw no ammunition at Shell Point Battery, or troops to take charge. Soldiers were mounting the gun, however. Basie Just at dark the enemy made an assault on Fort Wagner, with infantry. It was kept up with little or no intermission. At 9 o’clock I left the Point.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,