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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861-1861, (search)
n, and this would have required force, time, machinery for boring, and an ample supply of blasting material. It would have been necessary to have prepared for this work long before the propriety of it was decided upon at Richmond As it was, I was not ordered to destroy it until it was too late, and it was not until I had left Grafton and the road was occupied by United States troops, that I received the order specially to destroy the Cheat bridge. (See order of Council accompanying, dated June 1st, received June 5th.) Immediately upon my arrival at Philippi, May 28th, I sent a company, in command of one of my best officers, Lieutenant Chenowith, to destroy this bridge, the Cheat, a strong iron bridge, but they failed to accomplish it. This was several days before I received the order to do so from Richmond. It seemed to be thought that I had only to apply the match to bridges and tunnels already mined and blow them up. The labor and material for such work were left out of view. The
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Wee Nee volunteers of Williamsburg District, South Carolina, in the First (Hagood's) regiment. (search)
C. H. Stevens. As the colonel had no artillery and could make no effective return of the fire, he moved inside of our line of breastworks. About the same date Captain G. H. Moffet and the writer went on a private reconnoisance of the enemy's gunboats. We were discovered by the man in the mast-head of one of the vessels, and fire was opened upon us promptly. Their shells burst quite near, and we concluded to restrain our curiosity to examine a gunboat till some more fitting occasion. June 1st, 1862.—Lieutenant James F. Izlar, of the Edisto Rifles, was to-day sent out in command of a small detachment of sharpshooters to pick off men on the enemy's gunboats. His command was made up of a detail from several different companies. He met one of the gunboats and drove it down the river and out of the reach of his rifles. The enemy replied with shell and grape-shot, but without doing Izlar's command any damage. The lieutenant reported the men as having behaved splendidly. At this
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr. before Company a (Gregg's regiment), First S. C. Volunteers, at the Reunion at Williston, Barnwell county, S. C, 14th July, 1882. (search)
ore than it could do. The testimony of Swinton, himself an eye-witness, is more emphatic and complete: It took hardly more than ten minutes to decide the battle. There was along the whole line a rush—the spectacle of impregnable works, a bloody loss, a sullen falling back, and the action was decided. What an ignominious end to a boast, or what a failure in the fulfillment of a promise that he would fight his way to Richmond over the land route if it took him all the summer! By the first of June Grant had not only failed in this boastful promise, but he had so lost the confidence and command of his grand army that it absolutely refused his order to advance again. The summer had thus scarcely begun when Grant was obliged to abandon the idea of fighting it out on the line he had been so ready to undertake. But abandon it he must, for he had learnt by bitter experience, as Colonel Chesney observes, that the continuous hammering in which he had trusted, might break the instrumen