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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 1.1 (search)
e east. Secessionville, near the center of James Island, will be found on the map of James and Foll the other three modes of approach, namely: James Island, Sullivan's Island, and Morris Island. 3. by Map of the South Carolina coast. James Island was unquestionably the one to be most apprerton as safety allowed, harassing our camps on James and John's islands, by the fire of their long-strict of South Carolina. I had: 1.--On James Island--  Infantry1184   Heavy and light artille disastrous; for, as I have already stated, James Island was the avenue of approach I dreaded the mo ascertain what was their real intent as to James Island. This was done with General Hagood's usualgned by Gillmore for not having attacked by James Island in July, 1863, when he attempted the Morris3, I had only 1184 infantry on the whole of James Island; whereas, in order to guard the defensive led to the best advantage for the protection of James, Sullivan's, and Morris islands, and of the ci[7 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Du Pont's attack at Charleston. (search)
d be a combined effort by the army and the navy, and when he visited Washington, in the fall of 1862, he stated to the Navy Department Map of the blockade of Confederate ports. that at least twenty-five thousand. troops should attack from James Island, while the fleet attacked the harbor. No such force could be spared. Assistant Secretary Fox, the executive officer of the Navy Department, patriotic fertile of resource, full of zeal, resolute, and always able, rendered great service to t two years after Admiral Du Pont had declared it could not be taken by a purely naval attack, and had declined General Hunter's proposal to make Morris Island his base of operations. Admiral Du Pont believed that the troops should attack from James Island with at least double the force General Hunter could put in the field. Events proved the wisdom of this belief, but it brought the admiral professional mortification and great wrong. History abounds in examples of the anger and bitterness wit
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The army before Charleston in 1863. (search)
ebuilding and rearming old Fort Johnson, on James Island, on the south side of the inner harbor wests against a land attack were also made. On James Island strong works were built to close the approale strong batteries on the eastern shore of James Island swept all the practicable water routes fromshould be encountered, run by the batteries on James and Sullivan's islands, and reach the city. Ff its features, a demonstration in force on James Island by way of Stono River, over the same ground, by Brigadier-General Terry, who landed on James Island with about 3800 men. The effect as subsequeat it might not be distinctly seen from the James Island batteries on our extreme left, and from Forn it from Fort Sumter and from the works on James Island and on Sullivan's Island. When it reached rs, so that our sappers would have only the James Island batteries to annoy them; and, second, to brr of our guns, and the answering peals from James Island added sublimity and grandeur to the scene. [5 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 1.9 (search)
eston. Morris Island, which is nearly four miles long, contains about four hundred acres of sand dunes and salt marshes; the portion of the island lying toward James Island being formed almost entirely of very soft morasses, and traversed by deep bayous and crooked creeks in every direction. The Union troops under Major-Generalcult construction of the marsh battery was commenced under the direct fire of Batteries Haskell, Cheves, and Simkins and the other smaller Confederate works on James Island. A very large party of soldiers was detailed to make and fill sand-bags. A mock battery was built under Colonel Serrell's orders to the left of the proposed leston, many of them reaching it, others falling short.--W. S. S. Then two 10-inch sea-coast mortars were placed there to draw off the fire of the batteries on James Island. Colonel Serrell says that the distinctive features of the marsh battery as a work of engineering were that the gun-platform was placed upon a gun-deck rest
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of Bentonville. (search)
n, was, with its shattered columns, in rear instead of in front of Sherman's advancing forces, and thus he was allowed to make his march to Savannah a mere holiday excursion. At this latter point there was no adequate force to oppose him, and when Hardee, who commanded there, withdrew, the city fell an easy prey. The situation then was as follows: Sherman had established a new base, where communication with the sea was open to him, while Hardee's line extended from the Savannah River to James Island, beyond Charleston, a distance of 115 miles. Outside of the garrison of Charleston he had but a handful of unorganized troops to hold this long line, and our true policy then would have been to abandon Charleston, to concentrate every available man in front of Sherman, and to dispute the passage of the rivers and swamps which were in his line of march, and which offered most admirable positions for an inferior force to strike a superior one. The garrison of Charleston consisted, I think,