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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fragments of war history relating to the coast defence of South Carolina, 1861-‘65, and the hasty preparations for the Battle of Honey Hill, November 30, 1864. (search)
d miles of front, ready for rapid movement in any direction. The limited infantry supports were stationed at Charleston and its vicinity, with a restricted railroad transportation service for their movement outward in cases of emergency. I have no space in this narrative for details of this gallant, self-sacrificing retention of our coast line, but the reader will find in that invaluable history, Johnson's Defence of Charleston Harbor, page 277, a calendar of events on the coast, January 9, 1861, to February 18, 1865, which records the numerous attempts to destroy our railway line, the enemy's objective point for four years, uniformly resulting in utter failure and defeat, as shown in this indispensable military record. This invaluable encyclopaedia of local military annals, as its title indicates, was intended to record the events of the war in Charleston harbor during a stated period; the author, however, in addition, kept a diary of such other events relating to our coast d