A correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal writing from Jones’ Island, near Fort Pulaski, on the 30th ult., says that at the closing up of the water approaches to the fort and to Savannah, was accomplished by the herculean labors of our troops. No less than thirty thousand trees were felled and carried by the soldiers of the 48th New York regiment a distance of two miles to the river, and then towed by night in scows, five miles to Jones’ Island, where they were used for tramways over which to wheel the heavy cannon, which would otherwise have stuck in the mud.
Raftsman’s Journal, Clearfield, PA