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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 204 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 167 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 165 1 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 111 3 Browse Search
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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 57 1 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 57 1 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 48 0 Browse Search
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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 13: (search)
Operations in South Carolina opening of Gillmore's campaign against Fort Sumter the surprise d upon the capture of Morris island. Brig.--Gen. Q. A. Gillmore took command in place of General Hunmiral J. A. Dahlgren supplanted Du Pont. General Gillmore had confidently expressed his ability to ing reasons had determined the appointment of Gillmore. On quitting the Stono, after the repulse ion, and was certainly never determined until Gillmore developed his force on Stono inlet, when Morrly 10th, it was a surprise and overwhelming. Gillmore had put forty-seven guns and mortars in batteth, from his headquarters at Hilton Head, General Gillmore issued his order for the disposition of tunted to 650 men! Against this defense General Gillmore was to make his attack with forty-seven g south end of Morris island was lost, and General Gillmore immediately reinforced Strong, and Generall be forever commemorated in its history. Gillmore's third demonstration, on July 10th, the atte[3 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
e ridge with the bayonet. On the 26th, General Gillmore ordered General Terry to take and hold th man mortally and 5 slightly wounded. General Gillmore signaled to Admiral Dahlgren, who had fur get the monitors into action against Wagner. Gillmore. August 17th. Dahlgren: What do you thihave it stopped? Gillmore. August 21st. Gillmore: I will try to do so. Dahlgren. August 2 down that fire? Gillmore. August 21st. Gillmore: I am going in with the ironclads to Sumter, ot be fired into. Dahlgren. August 22d. Gillmore: I have just returned from above. The Passain we first opened. Badger. August 26th. Gillmore: Would it be convenient for you to open a heaat risk I incur. Dahlgren. August 29th. Gillmore: I will let you have either guns or projectilinary accident. Dahlgren. September 2d. Gillmore: I think your fire on Sumter may be omitted te whether I continue firing on Sumter to-day. Gillmore. September 2d. Gillmore: Not to my knowl[52 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
inia prisoners under fire campaign on the Stono. On August 24, 1863, General Gillmore, in a communication to the general-in-chief of the United States armies, sand Harris, and it was determined to hold to the last extremity the fort which Gillmore had reduced to a harmless mass of ruins. The men worked night after night trang his hat in triumph. Early in February, General Beauregard was advised of Gillmore's expedition in Florida, threatening the capital of that State, and he immediaed for Richmond. Federal troops, also, had been sent to Virginia and General Gillmore had been called to that field and replaced by General Foster. While these tding. General Foster, replying, said in part: Many months since Major-General Gillmore, United States army, notified General Beauregard, then commanding at Chd children be spared from harm. General Beauregard, in a communication to General Gillmore, dated August 22, 1863, informed him that the noncombatant population of C
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
al when South Carolina seceded. He was then elected colonel of the First regiment, and after participating in the reduction of Fort Sumter was ordered to Virginia, where he was present at the first battle of Manassas. Returning to South Carolina with his regiment he was engaged in the operations about Charleston and the battle of Secessionville, June, 1862, after which he was promoted brigadier-general. Until May, 1864, he served on the coast of the State, in defense of Charleston during Gillmore's siege, and was distinguished for gallantry in the defense of Fort Wagner and the operations on James island. On May 6, 1864, part of his brigade arrived at Petersburg and immediately went into battle at Walthall Junction with the advancing forces of Butler, and a few hours later General Hagood arrived with reinforcements. With three regiments, the Twenty-first, Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh South Carolina, he repulsed Butler's advance, at least two brigades, on the 7th; and on the 9th
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
fter the capture of that important fortress. He then returned to his regiment, with which he served until he was retired from the army. He was in all the engagements of Charleston harbor, which were of almost daily occurrence. He was sent with a portion of his command to Battery Wagner, on Morris island, under Lieutenant-Colonel Simkins, of his regiment. On July 18, 1863, he was shot from off his cannon, his skull on the left side of the head being fractured by a portion of a shell from Gillmore's land batteries. From the effect of this wound he was partially paralyzed for some eight or ten years. Though being so disabled that he was compelled to retire from the army, he was complimented by promotion to a captaincy. He especially distinguished himself at Battery Wagner on July 18, the day on which he was so seriously wounded. For two hours the gun that he commanded was the only one firing, and it held the enemy at bay, receiving the concentrated fire of the Federal guns, until C