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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 7 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 14 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 146 (search)
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136.-fight at Spanish Wells, S. C.
A National account.
Fort Royal, S. C., March 14, 1863.
Late last night our slumbers were disturbed by the long-roll calling the troops in and around camp to arms, and giving us to understand that at last something of a belligerent nature was on the tapis by the soldiers who have been so long in complete idleness on this island.
All sorts of surmises and conjectures ran rapidly through the long barracks and sleeping-rooms at Hilton Head, and every one wondered what was the cause of the sudden alarm.
It was soon learned, however, that, as usual, a few bold rebels had stirred up all this hubbub, had silently, to the number of seventy heavily-armed men, stolen up Skull Creek from the main land, sprung ashore at Spanish Wells, where we had a signal station, captured one of the signal officers and five privates, then set tire to the building, and hastily returned to their boats and rowed back to the point from which they started.
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 158 (search)
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148.-expedition to Jacksonville, Fla.
Report of Colonel Rust.
Hilton head, S. C., April 4. Lieut-Col. C. C. Halpine, Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the South:
Colonel: I have the honor to make the following report for the information of the Major-General Commanding Department of the South:
In accordance with orders received, I embarked my regiment on the steamers Delaware and General Meigs at Beaufort, March nineteenth, for Jacksonville, Florida, where I arrived on the twenty-third ult., having been delayed by rough weather.
Major Heminway, with three companies on the General Meigs, had already arrived.
When I reached there a rebel battery, mounted on a platform-car propelled by a locomotive, was shelling the town.
The gunboat Norwich, which accompanied me, engaged it, replying vigorously, as did also a rifled Parrott thirty-two-pounder on shore.
The enemy were soon driven back.
He was, as I afterward learned, making a reconnoissance, which it w
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 160 (search)