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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 26 (search)
piles. Instructions to that effect have been given to the Chief District Engineer, Captain McCready. On a small island near the city there is a small three-gun battery (three 32-pounders, Hutchinson Island Battery), enfilading the river and Screven's Causeway, on the South Carolina side; it occupies an advantageous position, but apparently low and damp. Savannah, Oct. 21st, 1862. I this day visited, with Brigadier-General Mercer, Colonel Gonzales, Chief of Artillery, and Captains Echond take post near and northeast of Mount Pleasant. 6. Major-General Wheeler's corps (that part of it east of Savannah River, and the remainder if it should come up) will guard crossings of the Savannah and New rivers, and the landings east of Screven's causeway, until forced by the enemy to retire. He will then guard and defend the country between the Savannah River and the defensive line of the Combahee and the right flank of that line, resting at or near Barnwell Court-house, and extendin