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Andrew F. Davis papers, January-October 1863
07_1863-02-09-Page 03
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evry day building fortifications for us to fight behind if Gen. Bragg comes here to fight us. Perhahse you do not know what fortifications are so I will tell you. It is walls of dirt piled up and pounded hard and smoothe which is higher than a mans head and is made like fences around a field or yard. On the inside there is a kind of a bench made of dirt high enough for the men to get on and shoot over the top of the wall. On the outside of the wall there is a deep ditch dug which is eight feet deep and twelve feet wide so that if the Rebels would try to rush over the wall on to us they would come to the ditch which would stop them for they could not get over it. The ditch is made by digging out the dirt to make the walls. In the middle of some of the lots or fields are build what we call Stockades which are made of large logs which are hughed off on two sides so that they will lay close together. Then they are sawed off about ten feet long and a ditch dug around in the shape they want it and the logs set up on the ends in this ditch close together and the dirt filled around them at the bottom which holds them fast and then a log is fastened all along on the top which holds them fast there. Then just high enough for a man to shoot through there is holes cut through the logs for to shoot out at. Then it is all covered over the top with logs and dirt so thick that a cannon ball will not go
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evry day building fortifications for us to fight behind if Gen. Bragg comes here to fight us. Perhahse you do not know what fortifications are so I will tell you. It is walls of dirt piled up and pounded hard and smoothe which is higher than a mans head and is made like fences around a field or yard. On the inside there is a kind of a bench made of dirt high enough for the men to get on and shoot over the top of the wall. On the outside of the wall there is a deep ditch dug which is eight feet deep and twelve feet wide so that if the Rebels would try to rush over the wall on to us they would come to the ditch which would stop them for they could not get over it. The ditch is made by digging out the dirt to make the walls. In the middle of some of the lots or fields are build what we call Stockades which are made of large logs which are hughed off on two sides so that they will lay close together. Then they are sawed off about ten feet long and a ditch dug around in the shape they want it and the logs set up on the ends in this ditch close together and the dirt filled around them at the bottom which holds them fast and then a log is fastened all along on the top which holds them fast there. Then just high enough for a man to shoot through there is holes cut through the logs for to shoot out at. Then it is all covered over the top with logs and dirt so thick that a cannon ball will not go
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