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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
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Doc. 28.-expedition up the South-Edisto, S. C. Official report of Colonel Higginson. on board steamer John Adams, July 11, 1863. Briyadier-General Saxton: General: I have the honor to submit a report of an expedition <*> the South-Edisto River, undertaken with your consent and that of General Gillmore, commanding department. I left Beaufort on the afternoon of the ninth, with the armed steamer John Adams, the transport Enoch Dean, and the small tug Governor Milton. I had with me two hundred and fifty officers and men of my regiment, and a section of the First Connecticut battery, under command of Lieutenant Clinton. By four o'clock the next morning we anchored before Wiltown, twenty-one miles up the river, and engaged a three-gun field-battery there stationed. After three shots they ceased firing, and, landing with Lieutenant West and thirty men, I took possession of the bluff, where the clothing, equipments, and breakfast-fires left behind betrayed a very hasty d
cipated in the fight. Since the engagement of the eleventh, General Gillmore has strained every nerve to strengthen his position on Morris he direction of Captain Brooks and Lieuts. Mirche and Suter of General Gillmore's staff. During the action of yesterday, Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson, Chief of Artillery on General Gillmore's staff, commanded on the left, and Captain Langdon, of the First U. S. artillery, company M, onot brought to bear upon her at any time during the action. General Gillmore designed to commence the bombardment of the Fort at daylight yf observation, a wooden look-out, fifty feet high, erected for General Gillmore and staff upon a sand-hill of about the same height, and situasecond assault by Colonel Putnam's brigade, Colonel Turner, of General Gillmore's staff, stood at the side of Colonel Putnam when he fell, andIn this night assault, and from its commencement to its close, General Gillmore, his staff, and his volunteer aids, consisting of Colonel Litt
Doc. 199.-capture of Gillmore's guerrillas. Martinsburgh, October 17, 1863. After the excitement incident to the ation in reference to the movements and whereabouts of Major Gillmore's predatory rebel band, to villainy and to vandalism cidges and culverts above that point. With this intention Gillmore left his temporary encampments near a distillery, in the fully meanders the clear waters of Back Creek. Now, Harry Gillmore is a thorough lady's man. That potent influence said tis senior Captain — Blackford. But for this circumstance Gillmore would not now be at large, as the reader will observe pre numerous to mention. We have exterminated, so to speak, Gillmore's choice spirits, his select party, his picked band, his , for the present time at least, the career of so many of Gillmore's lawless and ruffianly satellites. Among the prisonerhat gallant and lamented officer lost his life. They say Gillmore killed him, but they speak in terms of praise of his spir
ty rebels were discovered crossing from the Maryland side of the Potomac into Virginia, above Edwards's ferry, having with them fifteen or twenty led horses and some cattle. They are supposed to have crossed during the night. The provost-marshal of Montgomery county, as soon as he was informed of the matter, made inquiry, and is led to believe that there is a concerted horse and cattle stealing movement into Maryland going on by Mosby's and other guerrilla bands. This troop was led by Harry Gillmore, who left a note, pinned to the wall of a deserted building, announcing that this present raid was only a forerunner of what was to come. The Latest from Price. The following is a characteristic official dispatch from the Yankee General Curtis, who could not get to Price. It is dated at Camp Arkansas, November 8th: We have just concluded the pursuit of Price, whose rear guard crossed the Arkansas river under fire of our guns. He left another of his guns and his own carri