Second Approach Trench

Early in the siege, General Nathanael Greene reported that the approaches were going on slowly because of a shortage of men to dig. To relieve the exhausted sappers, he established a rotation in which one team dug while another returned to camp to make gabions, large baskets filled with earth, or gather wood for fascines, large bundles of sticks and branches used to strengthen trench walls.

Ninety Six, South Carolina · United States