[Webbs Ferry, Pa.]
[Extract]
[October] 8th....This night at Sundown we made a Battery of No. 2 Medium 12s at the N. side of the mouth of the Schuylkill;1 before it was finished 3 rebel Galleys came to their usual station at the mouth and hearing our workmen fired grape 3 inch shot, which we did not return, until our Battery was completed. The 10th Regiment marched from Camp to assist as a working party, this night but the boats in the morning from Gray's Ferry coming to Province Island Ferry2 were taken by the rebels and the people wounded and another attempt in the Evening failed owing to the lateness of the tide....
Montresor, Joumals, 463. Five sentences of this entry are not printed here. They relate to American and British deserters, the weather, and artillery for the batteries on Carpenters Island.
1. This battery was erected at Webb's Ferry to protect the river passage to Province Island.
2. That is, Webb's Ferry.
