Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson Point Battery

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  Affairs on Wilmington and Whitemarsh Islands, Ga.

  Quincy A. Gillmore, Rudolph Rosa, and Alexander R. Lawton

  Reports submitted from General Quincy A. Gillmore (USA), Colonel Rudolph Rosa (USA), and General Alexander R. Lawson (CSA), related to military actions on Wilmington and Whitemarsh Islands, Georgia from March 30-31, 1862.

  U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), Series I, Vol. 6, p. 120-123.

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  Affairs on Wilmington and Whitemarsh Islands, Ga.

  Rudolph Rosa

  A report submitted by Colonel Rudolph Rosa, of the 46th New York Volunteer Infantry, from Tybee Island, Georgia on April 3, 1862 describing military actions on Wilmington and Whitemarsh Islands on March 30-31, 1862.

  U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), Series I, Vol. 53, p. 2-3.

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  Map Illustrating the Defence of Savannah Ga.

  Orlando Metcalfe Poe

  A map illustrating the defence of Savannah Georgia and the operations resulting in it's capture by the army commanded by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman on December 21, 1864. Compiled by Brigadier General Orlando Metcalfe Poe of the Corps of Engineers in 1880-1881.

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  Map Showing the Defences of Savannah, On the Approaches of Wilmington and Savannah Rivers, Georgia

  Bowen & Company (Philadelphia, PA)

  A map showing the defences of Savannah, Georgia during the Civil War published by Bowen & Company of Philidelphia, Pennsylvania on February 8, 1865.

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  Miscellaneous Reports for the Military Districts in Georgia, 1864

  Lafayette McLaws

  Miscellaneous reports from military districts in Georgia from Confederate officers on the defences at Savannah from the spring and summer of 1864.

  U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), Series I, Vol. 35, pt. 2, multiple entries.

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  Skirmish on Whitemarsh Island, Ga.

  David Hunter, Henry W. Benham, Quincy A. Gillmore, James H. Wilson, William M. Fenton, and Marcellus Douglas

  A series of reports submitted by General David Hunter (USA), General Henry W. Benham (USA), Lieutenant James H. Wilson (USA), Colonel William M. Fenton, and Marcellus Douglas (CSA) related to a skirmish on Whitemarsh Island, Georgia on April 16, 1862. Includes a report on the defences of Savannah, Georgia by Lieutenant A. T. Cunningham (CSA) on October 20, 1862. Gibson Point Battery was not mentioned in the report.

  U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), Series I, Vol. 14, p. 4-13 & 335 & 645-

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  The Rebel Defences of Savannah, Georgia, 1864

  Library of Congress. Map Division.

  A map showing the Rebel defences of Savannah, Georgia, following the capture of the city by General William Tecumseh Sherman and his army on December 21, 1864.

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  The Siege and Evacuation of Savannah, Georgia, in December, 1864

  Charles C. Jones Jr.

  An article published in the Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17 (1890), pages 60-84 on the siege and evacuation of Savannah, Georgia in December of 1864. The article comes fro an address delivered before the Confederate Survivors' Association in Augusta, Georgia on the occasion of its Twelth Annual Reunion, on Memorial Day, April 26, 1890. The article mentions that there were two 8-inch howitzers and two 32-pounders at Gibson's Point before the exacuation.

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  Works at Eastern Point of Whitemarsh Island

  Library of Congress. Map Division.

  Engineer's diagram of Gibson Point Battery following the capture of Savannah, Georgia by Federal troops under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1865. Housed at the Library of Congress, Map Division.