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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Wee Nee volunteers of Williamsburg District, South Carolina, in the First (Hagood's) regiment. (search)
uck the key-stone of the arch which supported the roof of the casemate, and the whole structure fell. Twelve brave men answered to their names on— Fame's eternal camping ground. When the ruins were removed the next day, they were found exactly in the position in which they went to sleep. I did not hear the name of the Georgian. The men of Company A were, Sergeants W. L. Owens and J. Adger Stevens; Privates S. W. Anderson, O. J. Burn, S. L. Burrows, F. M. Burrows, James Calder, W. S. Gibson, J. W. Jones, L. S. Lee, and W. N. Patterson. The regiment remained at Secessionville all of the winter. For a long time we had daily artillery duels with the enemy. Whenever their steamers passed in reach of our guns we indulged in artillery practice. Our attentions were promptly returned with interest. In one of these fights Private Hugh M. Pressley, of Company C, had one of the bones of his hand broken by a piece of shell, and suffered for a long time from the wound. Brigadier
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
This was really a fine looking, well-uniformed set of men. Their uniform, like all their artillery, was of light gray, with red trimmings, their caps having a wide, red band. The three officers in charge of this battery were Lieuts. Spencer and Gibson, of Mississippi, and Lieut. Wilson, of Georgia. They delivered their horses and swords to Lieut. Col. Rempel; also, the six fine field pieces, together with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging. I found the above named officers well raisedee of rebellion. The Lieutenant said he hoped we might get him, as they had no further use for him. These men were respectful and even genteel in their conversation, till I expressed the hope that they might soon become good Union men when Lieutenant Gibson replied, "I hope, by G — d, when that takes place that I may die." This was the battery which fired upon us on Saturday morning. I commended their skill in gunnery, and stated the fact that they had come near killing me and my friend Colone
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
e represented, to report at the next annual meeting of the Convention. A resolution proposing to memorialize Congress to impose a tax of twenty dollars a bale upon all cotton produced within the Confederate States during the present year, in the event of the non-raising of the blockade of our ports before the 1st of May next, led to a protracted discussion, in which the policy of growing or not growing a cotton crop was fully entered into. Finally, the following substitute, offered by Dr. W. S. Gibson, of Mississippi, was adopted: Resolved, It is the opinion of this Convention that every planter throughout the Confederacy, in determining the character and extent of his crops to be planted, should bear in mind that it is reduced almost to a certainty that the armies of the Confederacy are to be supplied almost exclusively with provisions from the cotton States. Judge W. H. Sutton, of Arkansas, delivered an interesting address upon the subjects embraced in the following resol