Show the swamp angel speaking of guns the N Y volunteer engineer mr serrell senell sen ell who inho planted the swam swamp p angel ake enormous gun which giai has sent shell right into the heart of charleston a distance of nearly five miles thus speaks of the little joker in a private letter lately printed in the N Y tribune the swamp angel as the soldiers call one of the batteries wasa was a hard job it required days vi work ork xi while hile wagner gregg moultrie sumter suma bee johnson mrs johnson a as s we call another loi t on james island for want of a name and over a mile in length of small batt batteries elies all poured their shot and shell into us the whole time ix we e were buil building din it after they saw the epa ulment above the gra grass ss it stands on the very softest lofte st of mud 22 feet deep so soft that a in in will sink into it out of sight in a few minutes if he attempts to walk on it we carried bags filled with sand more than 2 miles and brought baroug lit over large larg e logs and pieces of timber more than 10 miles to in inako iko the battery two miles mile sand and a half of brid bridges cs across the marsh had to bo be built to get to and add from the batteries it was no easy job to mount the guns but it has been done and only gen gilmore and major batt of the engineers we were re iN illin illing to i ay they believed the plan feasible gard laughed at tile the idea of getting upon much less holding tile the maish as we have for over a month the commanding general used to say when openly expressed their proud satisfaction to me and a legacy for my child chil childrens diens L s chil abil dnn dien that I 1 did this and mounted the only guns that hn bai c ever fired into charleston since her ic 10 Lel lellious lions wicked citizens fired upon the glorious Ri old flag of our union and N what bat is more I 1 do not hesitate to say thit that if so ordered I 1 could with the means we e now have on liand hand utterly destiny desti oy obliterate and wipe off the rice fice of the Z airth ir thas as were ivere sodom and gomorrah that flink of iniquity md and hotbed of aristocratic rebels |