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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Operations before Charleston in May and July, 1862. (search)
ardment all day by gunboats of our troops in line of battle to resist enemy's advance from Legare's — our troops necessarily much exposed. A section of Captain William C. Preston's battery, light artillery, under Captain Preston and Lieutenant Julius Rhett, was carried with great promptness and dash into position, and worked withCaptain Preston and Lieutenant Julius Rhett, was carried with great promptness and dash into position, and worked with fierce energy, under a heavy cross-fire from the gunboats in the two rivers, and under a direct fire from a piece of the enemy's at the woods on Legare's, in front. The fire from these guns, and from the stationary and more distant batteries of Colonel T. G. Lamar and of Captain Warley, in the direction of Secessionville, rendere Carolina Volunteers, skirmished with the enemy at the Presbyterian church; enemy left one dead on the ground; indications that he suffered further. A section of Preston's battery did some firing. No loss on our side. A prisoner brought into camp. June 7. Alarm in evening; troops to the front. Everything soon quiet. Enem