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the 15th, that he was within 25 miles of Charleston; considered Edisto island the great key to that city, and with a reinforcement of 10,000 men could in less than three days be in Charleston. It will be noted in this connection that early in March, General Lee was called to Richmond and placed in command of the armies of the Confederacy, and General Pemberton, promoted to major-general, was assigned to the department of South Carolina and Georgia. Major-General Hunter, of the Federal army, had assumed command instead of General Sherman, the last of March, and reported to his government, about 17,000 troops scattered along the coast from St. Augustine, Fla., to North Edisto inlet. Of these troops, 12,230 were on the South Carolina coast—4,500 on Hilton Head island; 3,600 at Beaufort; 1,400 on Edisto, and the rest at other points. The force on Edisto was advanced to the northern part of the island, with a strong guard on Little Edisto, which touches the mainland and is cut off f
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
ich he has won high honors and contributed greatly to the spiritual welfare of the city and its moral advancement. A few years ago he received the well-merited degree of doctor of divinity. Lieutenant Elihu William Cannon Lieutenant Elihu William Cannon was born at Darlington, S. C., October 3, 1841. He was attending the North Carolina military institute conducted by Gen. D. H. Hill, at Charlotte, N. C., when hostilities commenced in 1861. He left school and enlisted as a private in March, in the Hartsville light infantry, Company G, Ninth regiment South Carolina infantry. He served with this command twelve months, during that time filling, successively, the positions of sergeant and third lieutenant. At the end of the twelve months for which time the company was enlisted, it was reorganized at Yorktown, Va., and entered the Sixth South Carolina infantry as Company E. He was elected first lieutenant and served about three and one-half months, during that time participatin