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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
presence as being simply a demonstration. The latter was obliged to reinforce the garrison on James Island, and could not send to Morris Island the troops that might have foiled the debarkation of Strong's brigade. Another demonstration ordered by Gillmore to prevent Beauregard from drawing troops from Savannah did not succeed so well. Colonel Higginson embarked on the same date with a negro regiment, the First South Carolina, on transports to ascend by the South Edisto River and the Pawpaw River as far as Jacksonboroa, where he was to cut the Savannah and Charleston Railroad. The attempt failed, like those which, to reach the same end, had previously been directed against the bridges at Coosawhatchie and Salkehatchie: the narrowness of the rivers and the distance rendered all these expeditions very perilous. Higginson was checked, repulsed, and obliged to retire, after abandoning two guns and burning one of his steamers. The greater part of Seymour's division, collected on
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
cah, where he had been brought up; his soldiers were all Kentuckians, and the desire to snatch this town from the Federals would have made them go beyond the orders of their chief. However that may be, they advance boldly upon the counterscarp of the fort. But Hicks has had time to post his men on the parapets, and a heavy discharge of musketry assails the Southerners, who experience heavy losses. While they strive in vain to surmount the obstacle, two Federal gunboats, the Peosta and the Pawpaw, which Captain Shirk, on returning from Tennessee the day before, has very fortunately left in front of the city, open fire on the assailants, which their balls strike on the flank. Thompson is killed by one of these projectiles. His soldiers are obliged to take refuge in the houses commanding the fort, and from the tops of which they continue the fight with the defenders. At the news of this bloody defeat Forrest rushes forward: a glance suffices to show him the uselessness of another