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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)
th South Carolina Volunteers, and four companies of Dunovant's Twelfth South Carolina Volunteers, under Major Jones. under General T. F. Drayton, a wealthy land-owner, whose mansion was not more than a miledistant from it, standing a few yards. from the beach, and overlooking a. beautiful expanse of land and water.. He was a brother of Captain Percival Drayton, commander of the Pocahontas, of this expedition. On the beach at Camp Lookout, six miles from Fort Walker, were sixty-five men of Scriven's guerrillas, who acted as scouts and couriers for the commander. These forces were increased, before the, battle commenced, to one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven men. The re-enforcements were composed of 450 infantry from Georgia, under command of Captain Berry; Captain Reed's battery of two 10-pounder howitzers and 50 men, and Colonel De Saussure's Fifteenth South Carolina. Volunteers, numbering 650 men. The force on Bay Point was six hundred T . P. Drayton. and forty men