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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fragments of war history relating to the coast defence of South Carolina, 1861-‘65, and the hasty preparations for the Battle of Honey Hill, November 30, 1864. (search)
en depleted of soldiers, to meet the urgent needs elsewhere, and behind the thin line of pickets that watched the miles of water front between Charleston and Savannah there were few troops in support. I purpose to record the undaunted courage, the self-sacrificing persistence, and the wonderful achievement of a small band of citizen soldiers, who, at a moment's notice, volunteered to confront odds of forty to one, and did so successfully and with surprising results. The late Hon. William Henry Trescot, speaking of the young men of South Carolina at the opening of the war, of whom these were worthy representatives, said: The fathers and mothers who had reared them, the society whose traditions gave both refinement and assurance to their young ambition, the colleges, where the creed of Mr. Calhoun was the text-book of their political studies, the friends with whom they planned their future, the very land they loved, dear to them as thoughtless boys, dearer to them as thoughtful me
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
ilton Head forts. It was a day of disaster to the Confederate arms; a most unequal combat, but the Beaufort and German artillerists stood at their posts of duty through the battle. The Wabash, the flag ship, it is now known, was struck thirty times and set on fire once; other ships bore the evidence of resistance to the invasion of our State. It was a grand fight between war vessels and land batteries, and yet I have never read any proper Confederate narrative of it. The late Hon. William Henry Trescot, in his eloquent eulogy on General Stephen Elliott, thus alludes to it: Early in November, 1861, the greatest naval armament the United States had ever put to sea was collected in the waters of Port Royal. It is strange now to think that with a year's warning, with full knowledge of the danger, the only resistance to this tremendous power was left to two earthworks, two miles apart, hastily erected by such civil skill as could be found, and with the aid of native labor from the ad
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Calvin, 260. Stuart's Battery, 233. Stuart, Gen. J. E. B, Address on, 87; his ride around McClellan, 90, 127, 185, 246. Sumter, Bombardment of Fort, 101. Swanson, Col. W G., 3. Taylor, of Caroline, John, 353. Terrell, Dr. U ,2. Thanksgiving, Dec 10, 1863, 26. Theatre in 1863, Richmond, managers and actors of, 3. Thermopylae, Pass of, 132. Thompson, John R., 259 Trainee officers in war, 66. Travel, Confederate rates of. 15. Tredegar Iron Works, The, 368. Trescot, Hon. Wm H., on the character of the young men of South Carolina in 1861, 83, 234. Trimble, Gen. Isaac R., 116. Torpedoes, Use of in Southern harbors, 67. Tucker, Rev. Dr. B. D., 315. Turnbull, Rev. L. B., 261. Tyler, Gov. J Hoge, 395. Varnell's Station, Those who fell at, 224. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 189. Virginia, Secession of, 40; munificense of, 53; despondent of; 61. Virginia or Merrimac, The, 216. Wade, Col. W. B., 222. Walker, Maj., John, 157.