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Macon Oct 3d 1864 |
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| Capt. L. P. Grant |
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| Dear Sir, |
| Advise me by telegraph at Genl Hood Head
Quarters, if the number of negroes sent you are such as to require an
Assistant additional to those you now have or will have (Mrs. Cooper &
Hansell) and some one will be sent you at once. It is probable Mr Davis
may be ordered to you after my arrival at Hd Qrs should then be no
special duty for him. |
| If after commencing work it is found that
the ganges of the detached redoubts can be as easily or more easily
closed by throwing up the earth, than by stockade-work, you are at
liberty to adopt the former. I enclose a sketch showing the way in which
bomb-proofs can rather readily be prepared: dig two trenches in the form
represented say 8 ft wide (or less even) and 6 ft deep, lay stout
supports across and ??? with the earth thrown out; the ends of the
trenches extending under the parapet afford good places for magazines
communicating with the ditch in the usr as showed. |
| Very resply |
| M. L. Smith |
| Maj Genl. & Chf Engr |
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