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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
h my regiment, where we were sent as soon as the Rebels retired. This shows that the events of the morning did not destroy the General's confidence in us. Cole's Island (opposite Folly Island), July 17, 4 P. M. James Island was evacuated last night by our forces. My regiment started first, at half past 9, P. M. Not a thi brought away from James Island, General Strong took this regiment under his command. It left James Island on Thursday, July 16, at nine P. M., and marched to Cole's Island, which they reached at four o'clock on Friday morning, marching all night, most of the way in single file, over swampy, muddy ground. There they remained all time. There they breakfasted on the same fare, and had no other food before entering into the assault on Fort Wagner in the evening. The General Hunter left Cole's Island for Folly Island at six A. M., and the troops landed at Pawnee Landing about half past 9, A. M., and thence marched to the point opposite Morris Island, reachi