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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 13: (search)
tions on the ruins of the old lighthouse on Morris island; on the mast-head of a wrecked blockaderunner, off Lighthouse inlet, and at Secessionville on James island, there was yet no discovery of these Federal works. So far from it, that General Ripley (district commander) reports, that up to the 8th or 9th of July the enemy, so far as ascertained, had constructed no works on Folly island, except to shelter his pickets from our shells. Johnson's Defense of Charleston. On this subject Major Gilchrist says, in his pamphlet on the defense of Morris island, himself a participant in that defense: It has always been a vexed question on whom should rest the blame for the neglect of this strategic point. There were mutual recriminations and much bad blood between those who were thought to be responsible for the success of the Federals on July 10th, which involved the destruction of Fort Sumter and the long and bloody siege of Wagner. But the truth is, General Beauregard did not beli
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
Cummings point and marched up to Wagner, always subject to the shells of the fleet and the fire of Gillmore. In what follows in this chapter the writer has taken the facts stated mainly from the official reports; the admirable pamphlet of Major Gilchrist, already referred to; and the account given by the accomplished engineer on duty at Fort Sumter, Maj. John Johnson, in his valuable book on the Defense of Charleston Harbor. Gen. W. B. Taliaferro, who had commanded a division in Jackson'ss and 381 soldiers captured. Among the slain were Brigadier-General Strong and Colonels Putnam, Chatfield and Shaw. Each of these officers displayed the highest gallantry, and died on the rampart or in the immediate front of the attack. Major Gilchrist, describing the scene of conflict the morning after the battle, thus speaks of the heroic dead: In the salient and on the ramparts they lay heaped and pent, in some places three deep. Among them Colonel Putnam, with the back part of his hea
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)
ted, and from the first has served as its commander. Major Robert Cogdell Gilchrist Major Robert Cogdell Gilchrist, of Charleston, a ConMajor Robert Cogdell Gilchrist, of Charleston, a Confederate officer prominently associated with the military organization of 1861-65, in South Carolina, was born at the city where he now reside the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Upon Captain Gilchrist's subsequent protests that a captain should not be kept from commended his promotion to major, but it was not acted upon. Captain Gilchrist continued on duty at department headquarters under Beauregardl Hardee moved out from Charleston to oppose Sherman's advance Major Gilchrist was left at the city, and when the evacuation occurred, on theappointment of General Johnston. On his return to Charleston, Major Gilchrist practiced law there until about 1870, when he went north to cans, and in 1897 was appointed magistrate by Governor Ellerbee. Major Gilchrist is one of the founders of the survivors' association, of Charl