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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)
de movement. The enemy made no attempt to follow us. In crossing the marsh on the Grimball causeway the gunboats shelled us furiously, being able to do so now without danger to their own troops. During the engagement we saw the signal officers of the enemy on a tree in the rear of their line of battle, busily sending and receiving signals between the land forces and the fleet. They were thus able to act in concert. The force of the enemy in our front, exclusive of the troops routed at Grimball's, consisted, as nearly as I could estimate them, of two regiments of white and two of negro troops, and one battery of artillery. Our force was superior, and we could have captured the whole brigade of the enemy if General Colquit had allowed us to press on, and brought up the Georgians to our support, according to the plan as explained to me at the beginning of the engagement. The number of the enemy killed by the Twenty-fifth was never correctly ascertained. My estimate was from thi