Major John Johnson's (CSA) Corrections to His Book: A Naval Connection

For much of April I have been writing about the Confederate Defenders of Charleston monument and Major John Johnson  who was the Confederate engineer in charge of rebuilding Fort Sumter after the horrendous Union bombardments 1863-1865.  This was in my Saw the Elephant: Civil War blog.  This information could also have been in this blog.

Major Johnson wrote a book about the defense of Charleston from 1863-1865, titled "The Defense of Charleston Harbor, Including Fort Sumter and Adjacent Islands"  in 1890.  It is regarded, even today, as one of the best, least biased, works on that period of time.

In today's post to that blog, I wrote about corrections he had made to the book when the second printing took place, and these were much of a naval character.

Including:

**  The sinking of the Confederate transport Marion

**   "Fish" torpedo boats

**  Attack on USS Pawnee and Marblehead

**  Range of Union guns at Fort Pulaski

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--Old B-Runner