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May (search for this): chapter 1.15
Secessionville road. That of the enemy was in plain view on the opposite side of the field in our front and about two hundred and fifty yards distant. Some of our pickets were sent up into trees the better to observe the enemy. There was a dense growth of corn in a part of the field, now in tassel. This field, being between the lines of the two armies and on neutral ground, had so far escaped the fate which overtook the balance of the crops on the island. The planters had been sent off in May with their negroes and such stock as was not needed for the use of the army. I had been appointed Provost-Martial and superintended their removal. Their crops were left standing in the field, and made the very best forage for our animals. The men have been feasting on roasting ears. In the night a scouting party approached our line coming through the thick corn. They were soon driven back, and, upon returning, were fired into by their own friends. Now, you have done it, some one in th
6th (search for this): chapter 1.15
ort Wagner. Besides six of the men left with Lieutenant Brown, three others were missing. When the men were all turned out of the bomb proof on the evening of the 6th, one man complained to me that he was sick and desired to remain in the bomb-proof. Ordinarily, he would have been excused from duty, but it was then impossible. battle in a wheat field east of the railroad and a little to the right of Craig's House, and not far in rear of the line occupied by Colonel Graham's command on the 6th. Soon after we reached Walthall, the Twenty-seventh regiment joined us, having reached Petersburg during the night, and been sent immediately forward. When dayligng to the character of the country, not in sight. The enemy's artillery came up and took post in the field in our front, where their line of battle had been on the 6th, and just beyond the road which I have mentioned. Some of their pieces could be seen by us, though a good view of their batteries could not be obtained because of
March 9th (search for this): chapter 1.15
mmand all the armies of the Confederacy, and that General Pemberton was our commanding officer. The new general visited Battery Island about the 10th of March unannounced. I was not favorably impressed by him, and I now believe that I was not then mistaken in my estimate of the man. After inspecting my batteries and dining with me, he went to Cole's Island. I have reason to think that on this visit he came to the conclusion to abandon the Stono as a line of defence. On Sunday, the 9th of March, Mr. Mellichamp, an Episcopal minister, visited us and held service in our camp. He had a good many acquaintances in the Washington Light Infantry. He preached a good sermon, and everybody was pleased with the venerable man of God. On Monday, the 17th day of March, I left the company in command of Lieutenant T. J. China, and went to the city, in obedience to orders received the previous week, for the purpose of taking my seat as a member of a court-martial. I went in the cart which
March 10th (search for this): chapter 1.15
department of South Carolina, but instead, we were informed that he had gone to Richmond to command all the armies of the Confederacy, and that General Pemberton was our commanding officer. The new general visited Battery Island about the 10th of March unannounced. I was not favorably impressed by him, and I now believe that I was not then mistaken in my estimate of the man. After inspecting my batteries and dining with me, he went to Cole's Island. I have reason to think that on this visguns. Some of their shells passed over us and fell in the marsh beyond, some fell in our camp, but very few exploded, and no damage was done. It was very evident that the enemy's guns were of longer range than ours. December 10th, 1863, to March 10th, 1864.—Some time before the assault of Fort Sumter, of 8th of September, Colonel Rhett and his command (the First South Carolina regular artillery) were relieved from duty at that fort. Major Stephen Elliott (afterwards promoted to be brigadi
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ulty. Wagner was not constructed with the expectation that an attack would be made from the rear. The ditch in front of the bastion was filled by sand-drifts (the effect of the enemy's shot and shell) for a space almost wide enough to admit a company in line. General Beauregard did not inform us before the evacuation that he knew the enemy's plan of attack, but this knowledge, no doubt, hastened the order to evacuate. The attack from the rear was the plan which I told Colonel Keitt (on the 3d, when I asked him to allow me to increase the force behind the flank wall on the outside of the fort) the enemy would be likely to pursue. I subsequently expressed the same opinion to Colonel Harris, but neither of these officers agreed with me. September 8th.—The enemy's ironclad fleet came up this morning, and a tremendous artillery fight took place between these vessels and Fort Moultrie and the batteries on Sullivan's Island. A night attack was made on Fort Sumter, but the garrison w
March (search for this): chapter 1.15
a five-dollar bill in my hand and you were to say that is bad money, I would not be vexed with you, but suppose a fellow should have his sweetheart on his arm and you were to say that is a bad girl, wouldn't he knock you down and wouldn't he serve you right? A slight Impediment of speech made Ard's reply much funnier than it is on paper. Before the laugh raised by this argument subsided, I left the room and did not hear Cameron's reply. General Robert E. Lee came to Charleston early in March to take command. Our great leader had not then made his immortal reputation. He had not been successful in his operations in West Virginia, and our soldiers had not learnt to appreciate him and love him as they afterwards did. He visited the various military posts around the city and made himself acquainted with the system of fortifications. I saw him when he came to examine the works on Cole's Island, and might have made his acquaintance, but not knowing then that I was losing the opport
April (search for this): chapter 1.15
ained at James Island. Very few of them exploded. They went in all sorts of zigzag and curvelinear directions and, failing to explode, fell harmless. I got one or two of each size and sent them to headquarters in the city. April 6th to 30th.—In the spring of 1864, it became the purpose of the Confederate Government to transfer a large portion of the forces commanded by General Beauregard, and that General himself, to the Army of Northern Virginia. Towards the close of the last week in April, Hagood's brigade had orders to move. As soon as I ascertained that we were going to Virginia, I got permission to march up to the city and wait there for transportation. General Taliaferro, commanding on James Island, signified his desire to retain Colonel Simonton. It was represented to him that his promotion, which had been recommended, would now surely come. He was told that it would be reported to the War Department at Richmond that his services were so necessary that it was thou
March 11th (search for this): chapter 1.15
t sure that any of the Twenty-fifth South Carolina volunteers got to eating rats, which were very numerous and large at the post, but some of the officers and soldiers of the artillery indulged in savory messes of those delicate rodents. A fat rat was worth ten cents. On the 11th of January Lieutenant-Colonel Brown and Dr. Thomas Grimke invited me to a rat supper. I went, but was not sufficiently hungry to partake of the viands. The Colonel and Doctor pronounced the repast excellent. March 11th to April 14th, 1864.—The regiment was relieved from further duty at Secessionville and went into camp just inside the new lines, on the right hand side of the road leading from the Presbyterian church to Dills'. The new camp was about four or five hundred yards from the church and a little further from the point where the new lines struck the Stono river, and in a field between the road and woods. Private George Gist again took charge of a volunteer detail and soon built me a comfortable
February (search for this): chapter 1.15
ropriety of giving up so much territory without greater effort to hold it. On the 18th of January we heard that a fleet of the enemy's vessels had sailed from Port Royal. It was supposed that it went to co-operate with the Burnside expedition, the destination of which we did not know at this date, but heard afterwards that Roanoke Island was the objective point. Our works on that island fell about as easy a prey into the hands of the enemy as Port Royal had done. About the middle of February we heard the news of the fall of Nashville and the capture of thirteen thousand of our troops. This news had a very disheartening and depressing effect on us. It made us contemplate the possibility of the failure of our cause. Until about this time, failure was not regarded by the army as among the possibilities. It seemed to us that thirteen thousand men ought not to surrender to any force. We hoped the affair was exaggerated, and that when full particulars were received there would no
March 17th (search for this): chapter 1.15
stimate of the man. After inspecting my batteries and dining with me, he went to Cole's Island. I have reason to think that on this visit he came to the conclusion to abandon the Stono as a line of defence. On Sunday, the 9th of March, Mr. Mellichamp, an Episcopal minister, visited us and held service in our camp. He had a good many acquaintances in the Washington Light Infantry. He preached a good sermon, and everybody was pleased with the venerable man of God. On Monday, the 17th day of March, I left the company in command of Lieutenant T. J. China, and went to the city, in obedience to orders received the previous week, for the purpose of taking my seat as a member of a court-martial. I went in the cart which belonged to the post, and was driven by Private Garner to the camp of the regiment, commanded by Colonel L. M. Keitt. After a soldier's breakfast with the Colonel and my friend, Dantzler, who had left the First regiment and been promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel, th
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