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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
eers, was killed at Wagner. August 18th. Fourteen guns from Morris island firing on Sumter; three ironclads, five gunboats, and siege batteries on Wagner. August 19th. The Ironsides fires on Wagner all day and fifteen guns from breaching batteries on Sumter. Working parties stopped by Wagner's picket fire from the ridge in d. What do you think? Dahlgren. August 17th. Dahlgren: I am satisfied with the firing thus far. The gorge wall is covered with shot holes. Gillmore. August 19th. Dahlgren: I am now pushing my approaches to Fort Wagner, and need cover against sorties. I think I can destroy the traverse and dismount the heavy gun on thee within 400 or 500 yards of Wagner all the time, night and day? A deserter says there are at least twenty Quaker guns on the parapet of Sumter. Gillmore. August 19th. Gillmore: I am going in with the monitors to feel of Sumter. If the enemy's fire is heavy, please get your batteries in action. Dahlgren. August 21st.
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
army at Drewry's Bluff, becoming a member of the United artillery of Smith's battalion. A few months later he was transferred to Company D, Sixth Virginia regiment, Mahone's brigade, with which he served as a private to the close of the war, being the youngest man in the regiment. He participated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Second Cold Harbor, all the battles about Petersburg in which Mahone's brigade was engaged, including those on June 22d and 23d, and August 19th, and at Reams' Station, August 25th and also at Hatcher's Run, where he was captured. He was taken to City Point, and while a prisoner there he met a brother who was serving in the Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry. The meeting was not a cordial one. From City Point Private Bain was taken to Lookout, where he was held a prisoner four months and eight days. Being exchanged, he rejoined his command in front of Bermuda Hundred on February 27, 1865. On the 24th of March, 1865, while in front of