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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)
Colonel C. H. Stevens, became for awhile the ranking officer on James Island, and the command of the island devolved on him. The camp of the regiment was moved to Secessionville, and regimental headquarters established in Lawtore's house. Captain G. H. Moffet, the adjutant, usually went with and acted as assistant adjutant general for Colonel Simonton when he was exercising a brigadier's command. Lieutenant F. J. Lesesne, of the Ripley Guards, in the absence of Moffet, acted as adjutant of theMoffet, acted as adjutant of the regiment. I found him invariably brave, trustworthy and efficient. In the latter part of the spring we lost the services of our chaplain, E. T. Winkler, D. D. He was detached from the regiment and ordered up to the city for duty in the hospitals. We were exceedingly fortunate in having his place filled by Rev. A. F. Dickson, a Presbyterian minister of high position in his church. Mr. Dickson followed in the footsteps of his predecessors in the chaplaincy, and discharged all of the duties
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)
ssels of the enemy threw a few shells into the camp of the regiment of Colonel C. H. Stevens. As the colonel had no artillery and could make no effective return of the fire, he moved inside of our line of breastworks. About the same date Captain G. H. Moffet and the writer went on a private reconnoisance of the enemy's gunboats. We were discovered by the man in the mast-head of one of the vessels, and fire was opened upon us promptly. Their shells burst quite near, and we concluded to restrasionville to Battery Island near Legare's Lower House. June 2d, 1862.—Colonel Simonton received orders to-day to select another camp inside of the line of breastworks, and across the marsh in a northeasterly direction from Secessionville. Captain Moffet, our adjutant, and I, had gone out and were looking for a suitable place, when the enemy's gunboats in Stono river came up as far as Grimball's House and opened fire on Secessionville. We heard the shelling and returned to camp. The battali