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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 13: (search)
ce on the south end of Morris island, or the general commanding the district, or General Beauregard, realize the true character of the attack that had been so secretly prepared. With lookout stations on the ruins of the old lighthouse on Morris island; on the mast-head of a wrecked blockaderunner, off Lighthouse inlet, and at Secessionville on James island, there was yet no discovery of these Federal works. So far from it, that General Ripley (district commander) reports, that up to the 8th or 9th of July the enemy, so far as ascertained, had constructed no works on Folly island, except to shelter his pickets from our shells. Johnson's Defense of Charleston. On this subject Major Gilchrist says, in his pamphlet on the defense of Morris island, himself a participant in that defense: It has always been a vexed question on whom should rest the blame for the neglect of this strategic point. There were mutual recriminations and much bad blood between those who were thought to
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
n Hagood and remained in camp at Church Flats, aiding to guard the coast of South Carolina until May, 1863, when it was transferred to the brigade of Gen. N. G. Evans, and ordered to duty at Jackson, Miss., where it became a part of the army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, being marshaled to relieve the army of General Pemberton, then besieged in Vicksburg. Before reaching there Vicksburg had fallen and the army retreated to Jackson, where the scattered and depleted army of Johnston arrived on July 8th, footsore and famished. From the 9th to the 16th of July the 7,000 or 8,000 men of Johnston's army held the long line of intrenchments around Jackson against four or five times that number of the enemy and daily repelled every assault made upon them. It was here that the cool courage and soldierly qualities of Captain Land were displayed. By his excellent behavior under fire and his acts of daring, he won the confidence and admiration of the soldiers and officers of the regiment, and ev