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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John's Island, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) or search for John's Island, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) in all documents.
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The fight on John's Island.
--The affair on John's Island, near Charleston, does not appear to have resulted in much loss to either side.
On Tuesday the Yankees crossed from Folly Island to Klawah, and thence to Seabrook's Island, killing and capturing several of our pickets at Hanover At that point Major Jenkins, with 150 mJohn's Island, near Charleston, does not appear to have resulted in much loss to either side.
On Tuesday the Yankees crossed from Folly Island to Klawah, and thence to Seabrook's Island, killing and capturing several of our pickets at Hanover At that point Major Jenkins, with 150 men, including a company of the 59th Virginia, under Capt. Jenett, made a stand.
Reinforcements were sent for, and Cols. Tabb and Page arrived on the ground.
The Mercury says:
On Wednesday evening Gen. Wise arrived, finding Page and Jenkins scouting the foe within a mile of the Hanover.
The Yankees' strength was estimated a ays that the Yankee pickets were at Jenkins's place on Saturday, about a mile from Hanover, while their main body, (stated to be 8,000 strong — an exaggeration, probably,) was still at Hanover — Another report is to the effect that they are evacuating John's Island.
Their gunboats have been shelling the island for two days pas