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and but four persons slightly wounded; from
Major W. II.
C. Whiting I derived also much assistance, not only as an engineer, in selecting the sites and laying out the channel batteries on
Morris Island, but as
Acting Assistant-Adjutant and
Inspector-General, in arranging and stationing the troops on said island; the Naval Department, especially
Captain Hartstein, one of my volunteer aids, who was indefatigable in guarding the entrance into the harbor and in transmitting my orders.
Lieutenant T. B. Huger was also of much service, first as ordnance-inspecting officer of batteries, then in charge of the batteries on the south end of
Morris Island.
Lieutenant Warley, who commanded the Dahlgren channel battery and the school-ship, which was kindly offered by the Board of Directors, was of much service.
Lieutenant Rutledge was
Acting Inspector-General of Ordnance of the batteries, in which capacity, assisted by
Lieutenant Williams, C. S. A., on
Morris Island, he was very useful in organizing and distributing ammunition.
Captains Childs and
Jones, assistant commandants of batteries to
Lieutenant-Colonel De Saussure,
Captains Winder and
Allston,
Acting Assistant-Adjutant and Inspector-Generals to
General Simons's brigade;
Captain Manigault of my staff, attached to
General Simons's staff, did efficient and gallant services on
Morris Island during the fight.
Professor Lewis R. Gibbes, of the Charleston College, and his aids, deserve much praise for their valuable services in operating the
Drummond lights, established at the extremities of
Sullivan's and
Morris Islands.
The venerable and gallant
Edmund Ruffin, of
Virginia, was at the Iron Battery and fired many guns, undergoing every fatigue and sharing the hardships at the battery with the youngest of the Palmettos.
To my regular staff—
Major D. R. Jones, C. S. A.,
Captains Lee and
Ferguson, C. S. A., and
Lieutenant Legare, S. C. A.; and my volunteer staff,
Messrs. Chisolm,
Wigfall,
Chestnut,
Manning,
Miles,
Gonzales, and
Pryor—I am much indebted for their indefatigable and valuable assistance, night and day, during the attack, transmitting my orders in open boats with alacrity and cheerfulness to the different batteries, amid falling balls and bursting shells.
Captain Wigfall was the first in
Fort Sumter to receive its surrender.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
