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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 14: (search)
h. Capture of the ridge and pickets of Morris island by Union charge (26th). Three days of nearly suspended firing on Sumter. August 30th. Heavy shelling of Fort Sumter from the breaching batteries; casualties, 5; damages caused by the 10-inch rifle (300-pounder) very severe. Recovery of guns by night from the ruins, and shipment to city by gang under Asst. Eng. J. Fraser Mathewes. This night, transport steamer Sumter with troops, fired upon by mistake and sunk by Fort Moultrie. August 31st. Fort Sumter received only fifty-six shots. Fort Moultrie engaged with four monitors for four hours, suffering no damage. Maj.-Gen. J. F. Gilmer announced as second in command at Charleston. September 1st. Mortar firing on Wagner disabled four guns. Fort Sumter suffers again from the heavy Parrotts, 382 shots, and in the night from the ironclad squadron, 245 shots, crumbling the walls and threatening the magazine as before; casualties, 4; the fort had not a gun to reply. This atta
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 19: (search)
e were shown by fighting from shelter, or even in the open. The corps of Hardee and Lee were physically unfit for the heroic exertion demanded of them on the 31st of August. To expect men who are worn out physically and wanting food, to carry intrenchments held by equal numbers, is unreasonable. The great Jackson failed to push want of his characteristic energy by telling of his absolute physical exhaustion. However much we may deplore the disappointing results of the battle of the 31st of August, no true man, who knew the men who failed there, would charge their failure to a lack of spirit or courage. The situation on the night of the 31st was criteen held at bay and the Confederate commander had only to strengthen a well-chosen position by the reinforcement of Lee's and Stewart's corps. If the attack of August 31st was disappointing, surely the splendid defense of September 1st, the successful retreat to Lovejoy's and the defiant resistance of a single corps on the 2d and
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)
il the beginning of the war, at that time having the largest business at that bar. He volunteered in January, 1861, in the Edisto Rifles at Orangeburg, was elected captain, and January 27, 1861, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the First (Hagood's) regiment, South Carolina volunteers. On January 21, 1862, he was commissioned colonel of the same regiment. He was wounded three times at the head of his regiment at the battle of Second Manassas, August 30, 1862, and died of his wounds August 31st. In 1859 he was married to Miss E. Tecoa Whitner, a daughter of Judge Whitner, of South Carolina, and they had one son, Thomas J., Jr., who died May 20, 1895. Mrs. Glover still lives in Virginia. Colonel Glover was a member of the State legislature that called the secession convention of 1860. B. J. Gold, since 1876 one of the leading citizens of Blacksburg and vicinity, is a native of North Carolina, born in Cleveland county, December 11, 1845. He is a son of Daniel P. and Margaret