[793] incident to prison life, from the fact that bad rations and bad water brought on disease which threatened to prevent his ever leaving that prison alive. Fortunately for him, on August 13th, General Schoepf, the commandant, received orders from the secretary of war to select 600 prisoners, of whom he was one, to be sent to Morris island, Charleston harbor, to be put under fire of the Confederate batteries. This, it was asserted, was in retaliation for Federal prisoners being kept in the city after their guns had reached it. Happily, the shells from Sumter and Moultrie did no harm, although they were confined in a stockade midway between the batteries of Walker and Gregg about two months, where they were exposed to a continual fire. Here again the prisoners were put under guard of negro troops, the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, of which regiment Shaw, of Boston, was colonel. From Morris island the prisoners were all removed to Fort Walker on Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in the Savannah river. Captain Pinckney was sent to the latter point, whence a month later he was included in an exchange of 100 sick and wounded made by Generals Jones and Foster, and he was landed in Charleston December 15, 1864. In April following, hearing that an order had been published declaring all prisoners on parole exchanged, he hastened to rejoin his regiment. General Hampton was now in command of the cavalry of General Johnston's army at Smithfield, N. C. He found his company, which he had left eleven months before numbering over ninety, now reduced to ten men fit for duty, and this the strongest company in the regiment. The morning after, they were ordered to the front to oppose the advance of General Sherman's army, and while thus engaged he had his leg broken, which wound up his military services. Not many days after it was learned that Appomattox had intervened, which was followed by the surrender of General Johnston's army.
This text is part of:
[793] incident to prison life, from the fact that bad rations and bad water brought on disease which threatened to prevent his ever leaving that prison alive. Fortunately for him, on August 13th, General Schoepf, the commandant, received orders from the secretary of war to select 600 prisoners, of whom he was one, to be sent to Morris island, Charleston harbor, to be put under fire of the Confederate batteries. This, it was asserted, was in retaliation for Federal prisoners being kept in the city after their guns had reached it. Happily, the shells from Sumter and Moultrie did no harm, although they were confined in a stockade midway between the batteries of Walker and Gregg about two months, where they were exposed to a continual fire. Here again the prisoners were put under guard of negro troops, the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, of which regiment Shaw, of Boston, was colonel. From Morris island the prisoners were all removed to Fort Walker on Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in the Savannah river. Captain Pinckney was sent to the latter point, whence a month later he was included in an exchange of 100 sick and wounded made by Generals Jones and Foster, and he was landed in Charleston December 15, 1864. In April following, hearing that an order had been published declaring all prisoners on parole exchanged, he hastened to rejoin his regiment. General Hampton was now in command of the cavalry of General Johnston's army at Smithfield, N. C. He found his company, which he had left eleven months before numbering over ninety, now reduced to ten men fit for duty, and this the strongest company in the regiment. The morning after, they were ordered to the front to oppose the advance of General Sherman's army, and while thus engaged he had his leg broken, which wound up his military services. Not many days after it was learned that Appomattox had intervened, which was followed by the surrender of General Johnston's army.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
Tufts University provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.