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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)
as joined at the sally-port by Captain Sellers with Company F. Lieutenant F. B. Brown and ten men of Company I were detailed to report to Captain Huguenin. That officer, with this detail and a few more men of other commands, was directed by Colonel Keitt to light a slow match communicating with the magazine, in which was a quantity of powder, and so timed that it would be blown up after he and the men with him had reached Cummins Point. The last firing was done by Captain Huguenin and his deto admit a company in line. General Beauregard did not inform us before the evacuation that he knew the enemy's plan of attack, but this knowledge, no doubt, hastened the order to evacuate. The attack from the rear was the plan which I told Colonel Keitt (on the 3d, when I asked him to allow me to increase the force behind the flank wall on the outside of the fort) the enemy would be likely to pursue. I subsequently expressed the same opinion to Colonel Harris, but neither of these officers