CREATED/PUBLISHED
1862 March.

SUMMARY
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862.

CALL NUMBER
LC-B811- 334
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME X/1 [S# 10]
APRIL 29-JUNE 10, 1862--Advance upon and siege of Corinth …
No. 37. -- Reports of General G. T. Beauregard, C. S. Army, commanding Department No. 2, with correspondence, orders, and supplementary statements concerning operations from April 8 to June 10.

I do not know how the matter strikes abler military men, but I think we have been fooled. The works are far from being invulnerable, and the old joke of quaker guns has been played off on us. They were real wooden guns, with stuffed "paddies" for gunners. I saw them. We approached clear from Shiloh in line of battle and made preparations to defend ourselves, compared with which the preparations of Beauregard sink into insignificance.

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XIV [S# 20]
CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING SPECIALLY TO THE OPERATIONS ON THE COASTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND MIDDLE AND EAST FLORIDA FROM APRIL 12, 1862, TO JUNE 11, 1863.
CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.--#8

HDQRS. DEPT. OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA,
Charleston, S.C., November 3, 1862.
Capt. D. N. INGRAHAM,
C. S. Navy, Comdg. C. S. Naval Forces, Charleston, S.C.:
CAPTAIN: You will greatly oblige by furnishing, on the requisition <ar20_665> of Dr. Cheves, 300 pieces of gunboat plating, from 2 to 3 feet long, for use in connection with the boom. Let me also suggest that the three ships in this harbor might be arranged with port-holes and Quaker guns, or dummies, and anchored near the line of boom, apparently for its defense. These dummies were found quite effective in retarding the enemy's movements at Centreville and the Potomac border.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
G. T. BEAUREGARD.

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XIV [S# 20]
CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING SPECIALLY TO THE OPERATIONS ON THE COASTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND MIDDLE AND EAST FLORIDA FROM APRIL 12, 1862, TO JUNE 11, 1863.
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.--#1

Additional means of creating alarm would be to arrange the hulk of one of our very large lighters (some 70 feet in length) with a pent roof of boards, blacken it with coal tar, make port-holes, and put in "Quaker" guns--in short make a sham iron floating battery, and send it up with the steamer and gunboats. We can easily construct such a sham battery in two days should such a plan meet with your approbation.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
ALFRED H. TERRY,
Brigadier-General.  

--Last edited by lhsnj on 2007-04-05 21:59:51 --

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1862 March.

SUMMARY
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862.

CALL NUMBER
LC-B811- 334A
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Thought this images went well with the Yorktown story from today in history that Dave posted.  Nice shots of some quaker guns.