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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Wee Nee volunteers of Williamsburg District, South Carolina, in the First (Hagood's) regiment. (search)
s to their country, and are as much entitled to honorable mention as if they had fallen in battle. Death is shorn of some of his terrors by the glamour which surrounds his approach on the field of carnage. The greatest heroism is required to meet the dread Conqueror amid the sufferings of the hospital. On the 22d day of July, 1862, the Clarendon Guards reported for duty, and the Eutaws ceased to exist as a battalion and became the Twenty-fifth South Carolina volunteers. July 19 to August 31.—There were no further active operations on James Island during the summer. Picketing, watching and waiting, with plenty of drilling, were our occupations during the month of August. General Taliaferro, of Virginia, was in command on the island. Brigadier-Generals Hagood and Colquitt were also there, and Colonel Simonton was still in command of a portion of the lines. The new lines were commenced and soon completed. Why the old lines were ever located on the ground occupied by them, wa