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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Loss of a Confederate Cotton steamer. (search)
Wednesday. At six o'clock the boats passed through the breakers and surf, and the party landed on St. Catherine's Island, where they remained all night. By great exertions they were enabled to obtain a fire, and it was made along side of a tree, the trunk of which, during the night, was burnt through, and a heavy wind prostrated it, injuring the following persons: Peter Faithful, 3rd Assistant Engineer, skull dangerously fractured; Chas, Smith, seaman, left side of cheek out slightly; Adolphus Moore, cabin boy, (colored,) leg fractured. The wounded having been taken care of, the party at daylight put to sea, and at 19 o'clock made the inlet to St. Catherine Sound. After getting about half a mile inside the mouth of the Sound a Yankee gunboat, schooner rigged propeller, mounting a pivot gun fore and aft and a broadside gun, discovered them and fired a blank cartridge. The men in the coats put all strength to their cars to make their escape. Five minutes after the Yankee blockader
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Death in the Pulpit. (search)
Death in the Pulpit. --Rev. Gee. Moore, for 43 years a minister in Charleston, died suddenly on Sunday of last week at a camp meeting, near Anderson C. H. S. C. The opening hymn had been sung, and with more than usually fervid power he had invoked the divine blessing upon the assembled congregation, especially for the widows and orphans of the country. The last word was uttered, the "amen" impressively died upon his lips, and then the holy man fell forward, and in ten minutes more was numbered among the dead. He appeared to suffer but little, and did not speak. Years ago he made the remark that, "among all the places on earth he would prefer to give back his life to God in a Methodist camp meeting." The wish was gratified — he died in his battle armor.