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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Extracts from the diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John G. Pressley, of the Twenty-Fifth South Carolina Volunteers. (search)
ons were in point of discipline equal to the Twenty-fifth, and none surpassing it in efficiency. Six iron-clads were reported in the North Edisto. A successful attempt was made by the Confederates to get off the armament of the Keokuk. The Confederate iron-clad Chicera covered the working party. One gun was successfully landed through the enterprise and ingenuity of a Mr. Lacoste, a citizen. A book was found on board containing the system of signals used in the Federal service. April 23d.—The regiments and battalions under the command of Colonel C. H. Stevens, of the Twenty-fourth South Carolina Volunteers, were to-day exercised in evolutions of the line. There were four regiments and battalions on the drill besides the Twenty-fifth. The performance was very creditable to all of the troops in the line. April 24th to July 8th.—Under the call of the Executive Council of the State for ten regiments with field officers appointed by the Governor and Council, Lamar's regime
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
nd portions of the Fauquier cavalry reached Harper's Ferry and found the arsenal and buildings in flames. But Lieutenant Jones had not succeeded in destroying everything which he could not defend, and the flames were soon extinguished. By the 23d April the newspapers reported that five thousand Virginia troops had assembled at Harper's Ferry, Richmond Enquirer, April 23, 1861. but Major-General Kenton Harper, of Augusta, who was in command, reports the number at but two thousand. Recordnts thus taken by the Virginia troops were afterwards formed the divisions and corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, and it will be interesting to trace the history of each body to its nucleus on one or the other of these positions. On the 23d April, General Robert E. Lee, having been appointed by the Convention of the State of Virginia Major-General, assumed command of the military and naval forces of the State. Ibid, p. 775. It was a grand and solemn occasion when General Lee entere