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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 5: military and naval operations on the coast of South Carolina.--military operations on the line of the Potomac River. (search)
urred. and a note for Commodore Dupont The following is a copy of Elliott's note to Dupont:-- Bay Point, Nov. 7th, 1861. We are compelled to leave two wounded men. Treat them kindly, according to the poet's saying--Haud ignara malg miseris succurrere disco. We abandon our untenable position that we may do the cause of the Confederate States better service elsewhere. Respectfully, Stephen Elliott, Jr. The Latin quotation in the above is a line from Virgil's aenead, in which Dido, remembering her own misfortunes, pities the errors of aeneas. It says, Not unacquainted with misfortune, I have learned to succor the distresses of others. I am indebted to the Rev. John Woart (who was chaplain at the U. S. General Hospital at Hilton Head when I visited that post in April, 1866) for a copy of Elliott's note, taken from the original by Captain Law, of the New Hampshire, then in that harbor. The humane injunction of Elliott was in a spirit directly opposed to his act in the