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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Chapter 7: up the Edisto. (search)
ded, and the dead were duly attended. The reader will not care for any personal record of convalescence; though, among the general military laudations of whiskey, it is. worth while to say that one life was saved, in the opinion of my surgeons, by an habitual abstinence from it, leaving no food for peritoneal inflammation to feed upon. The able-bodied men who had joined us were sent to aid General Gillmore in the trenches, while their families were established in huts and tents on St. Helena Island. A year after, greatly to the delight of the regiment, in taking possession of a battery which they had helped to capture on James Isle and, they found in their hands the selfsame guns which they had seen thrown overboard from the Governor Milton. They then felt that their account with the enemy was squared, and could proceed to further operations. Before the war, how great a thing seemed the rescue of even one man from slavery; and since the war has emancipated all, how little
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 43 (search)
ng duty. Lieutenants Jewett and Tucker were slightly wounded and are doing duty also. Lieut. Pratt was wounded and came in from the field on the following day. Captains Russell and Simpkins are missing. The Quartermaster and Surgeon are safe and are with the regiment. Dr. Stone remained on the Alice Price during Saturday night, caring for the wounded until she left Morris Island, and then returned to look after those who were left behind. The Assistant Surgeon was at the camp on St. Helena Island, attending to duty there. Lieutenant Littlefield was also in charge of the camp at St. Helena.. Lieutenant Higginson was on Folly Island with a detail of eighty men. Captain Bridge and Lieutenant Walton are sick and were at Beaufort or vicinity. Captain Partridge has returned from the North, but not in time to participate in the action. Of the privates and non-commissioned officers I send you a list of one hundred and forty-four who are now in the Beaufort hospitals. A few others
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 8: Corps organizations. (search)
eneral David Hunter relieved Brannan, and assumed command of the department; Hunter was relieved on June 3, 1863, and General Quincy A. Gillmore was assigned to the command of the corps. The total, present for duty, in June, 1863, was 16,329, including artillery and cavalry. The troops at Hilton Head were commanded by General Alfred H. Terry; those on Folly Island, by General Israel Vogdes; those at Beaufort, by General Rufus Saxton; at Seabrook Island, by General T. J. Stevenson; at St. Helena Island, by Colonel H. R. Guss. These forces were all under General Gillmore, and participated in the various operations about Charleston Harbor in the summer of 1863, the principal event being the bloody assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863. This assault was made by a column of three brigades,--Strong's, Putnam's, and Stevenson's, the whole under command of General Truman H. Seymour. General Strong's brigade led the assault, with the 54th Massachusetts (Colored) at the head of his column
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 36. battle of Port Royal, S. C. Fought November 7, 1861. (search)
nt of Fort Beauregard was equally a necessity. The garrison were exhausted, and in momentary danger of being cut off. When Colonel Dunovant ordered a retreat, tears of mortification and indignation filled the eyes of Capt. Elliott at the sad necessity. The retreat was admirably conducted, and rendered entirely successful by the prudent energy of Capt. Hanckel, one of Gen. Ripley's aids, who had got together some twelve flats at Station Creek, by which the troops passed safely over to St. Helena Island. From there they passed to Beaufort Island, and reached the train at Pocotaligo without the loss or injury of a man. In this fort none were killed, and but five were wounded, and two of these were wounded by negligence in loading a cannon, by which hot shot was driven on the powder without the wet wad preceding it. The rest of the story is briefly told. Late on Thursday night the garrison of Fort Walker had collected at the landing, in the hope of being able to reach Bluffton by w
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 165 (search)
idout a full heart and a troubled sperrit! All the songs make good barcaroles. Whittier builded better than he knew when he wrote his Song of the negro Boatman. It seemed wonderfully applicable as we were being rowed across Hilton Head Harbor among United States gunboats — the Wabash and the Vermont towering on either side. I thought the crew must strike up: “And massa tink it day ob doom And we ob jubilee.” Perhaps the grandest singing we heard was at the Baptist Church on St. Helena Island, when a congregation of three hundred men and women joined in a hymn: “Roll, Jordan, roll, Jordan! Roll, Jordan, roll!” It swelled forth like a triumphal anthem. That same hymn was sung by thousands of negroes on the Fourth of July last, when they marched in procession under the Stars and Stripes, cheering them for the first time as the flag of our country. A friend writing from there says that the chorus was indescribably grand--that the whole woods and world seemed joining
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Rebel reports and Narratives. (search)
s, untruths patent to every officer of the squadron. Wm. Rogers Taylor, Commanding United States Steamer Housatonic. J. H. Strong, Commanding United States Steamer Flag. Jas. Mad. Frailet, Commanding United States Steamer Quaker City. E. G. Parrott, Commanding United States Steamer Augusta. P. G. Watmough, Commanding United States Steamer Memphis. C. J. Van Alstine, Commanding United States Steamer Stettin. headquarters one hundred and Seventy-Sixth Regt., Pennsylvania militia, St. Helena Island, S. C., February 21, 1863. sir: Having seen a proclamation issued by Gen. Beauregard and Commodore Ingraham, to the effect that upon the morning of the thirty-first ult., they had, by force of arms, succeeded in dispersing the blockading fleet which was lying off Charleston harbor, and also a statement purporting to have come from the English Consul at that port, and the commanding officer of the English man-of-war Petrel, that they had gone out to a point five miles beyond the usua
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 160 (search)
redth regiment, which came from North-Carolina in February last, is a portion of the Eighteenth army corps. From their arrival in the department of the South, until they embarked for the expedition to this place, they have been encamped at St. Helena Island, Port Royal harbor. Pursuant to orders from General Hunter, they embarked from that place on Monday, the twenty-fourth instant, on board the steamer Expounder, Captain Deering. As they marched from the camp to the vessel, they were the re where they disembarked, and exchanged their fire-arms for the new Austrian rifle. This work occupied nearly the entire day, and it was nearly dark before the regiment reembarked. The Expounder transport then returned to her anchorage off St. Helena Island, where she remained for the night. On Tuesday, the twenty-fifth instant, a southeast gale, accompanied by rain and fog, prevailed, so that it was injudicious to move on that day. At daylight on the morning of Wednesday, the twenty-six
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 31: (search)
plantations, but went no farther, and withdrew precipitately, without committing additional damage on their way back; nor did they interfere with or cut the line of communication between Charleston and Savannah, a little farther on. A few days later, on the 12th of June, General Gillmore superseded General Hunter, and assumed command of the Department of the South. The Federal forces were then in possession of Folly Island, north of the Stono; Seabrook Island, on the North Edisto; St. Helena Island, Port Royal Island, Hilton Head Island, Tybee Islands, Fort Pulaski, Ossabaw Island, Fort Clinch, and Amelia Island, and the city of St. Augustine. Engineer and Artillery Preparations against Charleston, by General Q. A. Gillmore, p. 18. It was fortunate that, shortly afterwards, the new Commanding General, in whose daring and engineering ability the North greatly relied, preferred making his attack by Morris Island, instead of on the broad and weak front of James Island, where he mig
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, J. R. Hawley (search)
lOct. 12, 1864, to Oct. 20, 1864. 2d Brigade, 1st Division, Tenth Army Corps, Army of the James Brigadier GeneralOct. 20, 1864, to Oct. 29, 1864. 3d Division, Tenth Army Corps, Army of the James Brigadier GeneralOct. 29, 1864, to Nov. 4, 1864. 2d Brigade, 1st Division, Tenth Army Corps, Army of the James Col. 7th Conn. InfantryApr. 28, 1864, to May 2, 1864. 3d Brigade, 1st Division, Tenth Army Corps, Army of the James Col. 7th Conn. InfantryDec., 1863, to Feb. 5, 1864. U. S. Forces St. Helena island., Department of the South Col. 7th Conn. InfantryFeb. 16, 1864, to Feb. 29, 1864. Hawley's Brigade, Barton's Brigade, District of Florida., Department of the South Col. 7th Conn. InfantryFeb. 25, 1864, to Apr. 25, 1864. 2d Brigade, Ames' 1st Division, Department of the South Col. 7th Conn. InfantryMay 2, 1864, to Sept. 12, 1864. 2d Brigade, 1st Division, Tenth Army Corps, Army of the James Col. 7th Conn. InfantrySept. 19, 1863, to Oct. 19, 1863. 3d Brigade, 1st Brigade, U. S. For
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, George C. Strong (search)
George C. Strong Brigadier GeneralJuly 6, 1863, to July 18, 1863Mortally Wounded2d Brigade, Seymour's 2d Division, Department of the South Brigadier GeneralJune 13, 1863, to July 5, 1863. U. S. Forces St. Helena island., Department of the South
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