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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The career of Wise's Brigade, 1861-5. (search)
mptness and the pluck of these men. The enemy designed its attack upon Florida, and a large fleet left the mouth of the Stono, conveying troops for the South. It was uncertain for a time what their point of destination was, when a servant of General Gilmer was captured by my Rebel Troop, as it was called, on John's Island. He was brought in to me as a prisoner of war. He was a light mulatto, who described himself as the son of a slave freed by the Barnes family, near Frederick, in Maryland. He was General Gilmer's cook, was purveying for the general's table on Morris's Island, and had got lost on the Wadmalaw. He was an exceedingly plausible fellow, and after a close and searching examination professed to be wholly ignorant of the design of the Stono expedition. At last he was overcome by my refusal to receive or treat him as a prisoner of war. What then? He was made to apprehend that he would be turned loose, unmolested, to shift for himself. Fearing many imaginary dangers, tha
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.43 (search)
Marysville, Charlotte county. J. H. Allen, Forty-eighth Infantry Battalion, Ballardsville, Boone county. H. G. Brinkley, Forty-first Infantry, Norfolk. C. F. Crisp, Tenth Infantry, Luray, Page county. S. H. Finks Tenth Infantry, Madison Courthouse. J. Long, Tenth Infantry, Bridgewater, Rockingham county. John A. Donaghe, Tenth Infantry, Parnassus. J. J. Hervitzie, Thirty-seventh Infantry, Lebanon. J. A. Burnett, Fiftieth Infantry, Blountville, Sullivan county, Tennessee. W. S. Gilmer, Thirty-seventh Infantry, Lebanon. J. W. Harris, Fifty-eighth Infantry, Bedford county. J. S. Hix, Forty-fourth Infantry, Goochland. Thomas R. Applebury, Forty-fourth Infantry, Fluvanna county. John W. Hughes, Forty-fourth Infantry, Cobham Depot. William A. Dawson, Twenty-seventh Infantry, Callands. D. B. Cannoy, Fourth Infantry, Elk creek. W. W. George, Twenty-sixth Battalion, Princeton, Mercer co. W. G. Herrington, Twenty-fifth Battalion, Shelby, Cleveland county, N. C. R