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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)
as soon as they applied. Knowing this, these sick men were, I think, not generally averse to being detailed and thus saving their friends from great hardship. The men fit for duty of the famous corps of sharpshooters were, after Pemberton found that his pet scheme had failed, attached to the Charleston Battalion. That battalion thereafter became the Twenty-seventh South Carolina Volunteers. I must do General Pemberton the justice to say that he selected some excellent officers. Major R. Blythe Allston, who was a captain in the sharpshooters, was one the very best officers of Colonel Gaillard's regiment and Hagood's brigade. Notwithstanding every subterfuge which the captains could with honor devise, some good men were lost. Though a good shot could not be selected by draft, which was resorted to in some of the companies, it was sometimes impossible to prevent the lot falling on a good man. It may seem to some that the evasion of the officers whose duty it was to make these de