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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
ohn Adams, with two transports, but in his attempt July 10. to reach the railway he was repulsed, and returned with two hundred contrabands, See explanation of this word in this connection on page 501, volume I. who gladly followed him. Terry's movement was successful, for it drew the attention of the Confederates to James's Island. and caused them to send re-enforcements thither from Morris Island. Thirty hours after Terry's departure, General George C. Strong silently embarked July 9, 1863. two thousand men These consisted of the Third New Hampshire, Sixth and Seventh Connecticut, Ninth Maine, Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania, four companies of the Forty-eighth New York, and a battalion of sharp-shooters. in small boats, on Folly River, and rowed softly, thoroughly masked by the tall marsh grass and the shadows of night, to the junction of that stream with Light-House inlet. The movement was unperceived by the Confederate sentinels, and the occupants of Morris Island were ast