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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), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
ey were exposed to a continual fire. Here again the prisoners were put under guard of negro troops, the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, of which regiment Shaw, of Boston, was colonel. From Morris island the prisoners were all removed to Fort Walker on Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in the Savannah river. Captain Pinckney was sent to the latter point, whence a month later he was included in an exchange of 100 sick and wounded made by Generals Jones and Foster, and he was landed in Charleston December 15, 1864. In April following, hearing that an order had been published declaring all prisoners on parole exchanged, he hastened to rejoin his regiment. General Hampton was now in command of the cavalry of General Johnston's army at Smithfield, N. C. He found his company, which he had left eleven months before numbering over ninety, now reduced to ten men fit for duty, and this the strongest company in the regiment. The morning after, they were ordered to the front to oppose the advance of Ge