| Engineer's Office |
| Galveston |
| April 30, 1863 |
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| Capt. Edmund P. Turner |
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Assistant Adjutant-General, Brownsville
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Captain,
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| I have the honor to make
the following report for the month of April, 1863:
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| Fort Point--casemated
battery. The wood, iron, and earth work was completed during
this month; five iron casemate carriages constructed; the guns
mounted; cisterns placed, and hot-shot furnace constructed. It has
to be sodded all over, the bank being high and composed of sand. Two
10-inch mortars will be placed on the top behind breastworks.
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| Port Magruder--heavy
open battery. The front embankment, traverses, platforms, and
magazines were completed during this month; two 10-inch columbiads
mounted. The Harriet Lane guns are not mounted, for want of suitable
carriages, which are under construction. Bomb-proofs and embankment
in the rear commenced and the front embankment sodded inside, top
and slope. With the present force it will require nearly the whole
of this month to complete it.
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| Fort Bankhead. Guns
were mounted and the railroad {an extension of
the Galveston, Houston & Henderson RR} constructed during
this month.
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| South Battery. For want of labor
the reconstruction of this battery was commenced within the last few
days of the month; also the construction of the railroad leading to
it.
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| Intrenchment of the town
is barely commenced, for want of labor.
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| *****
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| I have the honor to remain,
respectfully, your obedient servant,
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| V. Sulakowski
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