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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
Charleston, in which the land attack was to be for the possession of Morris island, by way of Folly island, the objective being Fort Sumter; and the naval attack, by the ironclad fleet, was to be on tlected in North Edisto and twenty transports were in the Stono, landing troops on Cole's and Folly islands. On the 6th, the steam frigate Ironsides and eight monitors were off the bar, and on the moter's forces was made, or appeared to be in preparation, to attack either Morris island from Folly island, or James island from Cole's island. On James island General Gist commanded a force fully adbut on Morris island Colonel Graham was not strong enough to resist a division attacking from Folly island under the fire of gunboats, which lay off the north end of the latter island. If the Federal-Colonel Dargan, of the Twenty-first, made a night attack upon the picket at the north end of Folly island, crossing from Morris island a small detachment in boats. The attack was a surprise, and com
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 13: (search)
brigade, under Brigadier-General Vogdes, on Folly island, with light artillery and some cavalry. Thrried out the directions, that the force on Folly island baffled the attempts made to locate it or dse inlet. General Vogdes was known to be on Folly island with some force, but what he was doing, or designed to prevent an attack by boats from Folly island. The enemy's strength on the latter islandas ascertained, had constructed no works on Folly island, except to shelter his pickets from our shes was doing some work—its extent unknown—on Folly island, General Ripley again, with the tardy conseforty-seven guns in the masked batteries on Folly island, and 8, 11 and 15-inch guns in — the monitond to Richmond, that an attack on Sumter along Folly and Morris islands is evidently imminent. Gen at a moment's warning. The batteries on Folly island were then under cover and still unknown. Ter had made a reconnoissance to the west of Folly island, by boat, and had plainly discovered the fl[4 more...