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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
at Charleston before the close of the year. Lieutenant James A. Hamilton, when the call to arms was sounded in January, ow are the shell to be taken out? inquired the captain. Hamilton had solved the matter already. Wading in to his breast, hape—the leaden collars all requiring rasping before use. Hamilton had gone to the shell-room to push the artificer and on hf the fort jetted in clouds as the iron ploughed around. Hamilton got two pieces of scantling and rigged a lever. Plunging Two fast rowboats were provided, Elliott taking one and Hamilton the other. During the night they pulled away for a hummod with 5,000 men and Dahlgren's brag marines as gunners. Hamilton held a second defense in the opening of the fight. His t, one officer arose and offered the following: Rhodes and Hamilton; their guns gave us the day. Elliott was sent to Fort Sumter. He wrote to Hamilton: General Beauregard tells me to select an officer to take charge of and apply the torpedoes whic