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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
fleet and held by a strong force under Major-General Foster, in 1862, afforded a safe and easy basene within four miles of the former place. General Foster planned an attack, first on Kinston and thy guns, and a regiment of cavalry 640 strong. Foster's force was composed of twelve Massachusetts, the town, covering the bridge over the Neuse. Foster moved on this position at once and attacked agheroic, and their firmness enabled him to hold Foster in check throughout the day. Early the nextout 2 miles from Kinston, and was awaiting General Foster's advance when he received a summons from and prepared for battle, but night coming on, Foster gave up the further pursuit of General Evans ot of a total in front of Kinston of 2,014. General Foster's apid retreat from the railroad can onlyorth Carolina troops. The expedition of General Foster with so large a force, and the reported pr attack on that city. Pending the movement of Foster, General Whiting telegraphed to General Beaure[3 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
ict and Georgia. On July 31st, the aggregate present in various commands under General Jones was as follows: First and Fourth districts, Gen. R. S. Ripley, 3,177; Seventh district, General Taliaferro, 3,742; Second and Sixth districts, Gen. B. H. Robertson, 1,280; Third district and district of Georgia, General McLaws, 3,600. The bombardment of Charleston having continued for ten months, on June 13th General Jones addressed the following letter to the Federal commander: Maj.-Gen. J. G. Foster, Commanding United States Forces on Coast of South Carolina, C. S. General: Five generals and 45 field officers of the United States army, all of them prisoners of war, have been sent to this city for safekeeping. They have been turned over to Brigadier-General Ripley, commanding the First military district of this department, who will see that they are provided with commodious quarters in a part of the city occupied by non-combatants, the majority of whom are women and children
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 21: (search)
it uncertain for a time whether he did not intend to enter South Carolina at that point. On November 28th, before the arrival of Sherman at Savannah, Maj.-Gen. John G. Foster, commanding the Federal department of the South, left Hilton Head with all his available troops, amounting to 5,000 infantry, cavalry and artillery, withpelled to put in his last Georgia regiment, making his force engaged about 1,400 muskets. The valor with which they fought may be inferred from the report of General Foster, who said: The enemy's infantry, rather over 4,000 and nearly equal to our own in number, was posted behind intrenchments in the woods on each side of they the next morning General Chestnut was up with 350 South Carolina reserves, and General Baker with a North Carolina brigade. Of his subsequent operations, General Foster reported: From November 30th to December 5th, while keeping the greater part of the force at Boyd's Neck, I made at different points, with the assistance
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)
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 f the four years conflict he served from Maryland to Mississippi. He was at the battle of Second Manassas, Boonsboro and Sharpsburg, was with the army at Winchester after the return to Virginia, and went with his regiment to Kinston, N. C., when Foster made his raid from New Bern. Next he went with the Twenty-third to Wilmington and from there to Mississippi, when Gen. Joseph Johnston was trying to concentrate a force for the relief of Vicksburg. He was in the skirmishes under Jackson, was th