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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Flag Presentation to the Washington Artillery . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Agreement between the United States Government and South Carolina as to Forts at Charleston . (search)
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battle of Secessionville . (search)
Battle of Secessionville.
Report of Colonel Johnson Haygood.
[We are under many obligations to the gallant soldier and distinguished citizen, Governor Johnson Haygood, of South Carolina, for the use of a number of original papers, which should have been copied and published ere this, but for the pressure upon our time.
We give now the first instalment, to be followed by others.]
Headquarters advanced forces, James Island, June 18th, 1862.
Captain,—I am required to report the operations of the troops under my command on the 16th instant.
Some days previously I had had the honor to be placed in command of a corps composed of the First and Twenty-fourth South Carolina, the entire battalion, and McEnery's Louisiana battalion, to which were assigned the duties of the advanced guard.
The force at Secessionville, however, continued to keep out in front of that position its own outposts, which were not under my command, and made no direct report to me. This has since been
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Small arms. (search)
Small arms.
At the formation of the government, or at the beginning of the war, the arms at command were distributed as follows, as nearly as I can recollect:
Rifles.Muskets.
At Richmond, Va. (about)4,000
Fayetteville Arsenal, North Carolina (about)2,00025,000
Charleston Arsenal, South Carolina (about)2,000 20,000
Augusta Arsenal, Georgia (about)3,00028,000
Mount Vernon Arsenal, Alabama2,000 20,000
Baton Rouge Arsenal, Louisiana2,00027,000
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15,000120,000
There were at Richmond about 60, 000 old, worthless flint muskets, and at Baton Rouge about 10,000 old Hall's rifles and carbines.
Besides the foregoing, there were at Little Rock, Ark., a few thousand stands, and some few at the Texas arsenals, increasing the aggregate of serviceable arms to, say, 143,000.
To these must be added the arms owned by the several States and by military organizations throughout the country, giving, say, 150,000 in all for the use of the armies of the Confederacy.
The rifles we
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Progress of manufacture. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Contributions to the history of the Confederate Ordnance Department . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 32 (search)
How they made South Carolina Howl—Letter from one of Sherman's bummers.
[from the Alderson statesman, West Va., of October 29th, 1883.]
The following letter was found in the streets of Columbia after the army of General Sherman had left.
The original is still preserved and can be shown and substantiated, if anybody desires among other things an old silver milk pitcher) and a very fine gold watch from a Mr. De Saussure, of this place (Columbia). De Saussure is one of the F. F. V.'s of S. C., and was made to fork out liberally.
Officers over the rank of Captain are not made to put their plunder in the estimate for general distribution.
This is very u bert got the necklace and breast-pin of the same set. I am trying to trade him out of them.
These were taken from the Misses Jamison, daughters of the President of the South Carolina Secession Convention.
We found those on our trip through Georgia.
T. J. M.
This letter was addressed to Mrs. Thomas J. Myers, Boston, Mass
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Operations before Petersburg , May 6 -11 , 1864 . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A morning call on General Kilpatrick . (search)