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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 3.2: records of the War between the States (search)
ederate service at Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbor, still wearing the blue uniforms of their volunteer organization. It was one of the state militia companies so extensively organized throughout the South previous to the war. South Carolina was particularly active in this line. After the secession of the State the Charleston papers were full of notices for various military companies to assemble for drill or for the distribution of arms and accoutrements. Number 2 of this group is Allen J. Green, then Captain of the Columbia Flying Artillery (later a Major in the Confederate service). No. 4 is W. K. Bachman, then a 4th Lieutenant, later Captain in the German Volunteers, a state infantry organization that finally entered the artillery service and achieved renown as Bachman's Battery. No. 3 is Wilmot D. de Saussure; No. 7 is John Waites, then Lieutenant and later Captain of another company. After 1863, when the Confederate resources were waning, the Confederate soldiers were not
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 26 (search)
in Columbia. When asked what orders were given in reference to the disposition of the cotton in Columbia, immediately prior to the 17th of February, General Hampton stated that an order had been issued by General Beauregard on the 14th to Major Allen J. Green, the post commander, to have the cotton moved out of the warehouses to a place where it could be burned, if it became necessary to do so, without endangering the town. Not having the transportation at his disposal, Major Green had placed Major Green had placed it in the streets. On the night of the 16th, when General Hampton was assigned to duty at Columbia, he called General Beauregard's attention to the position of this cotton, telling him that if it were burned it would endanger the town, and urged him to order that the cotton should not be burned. This he did. Being asked whether that order not to fire the cotton had been carried out by the Confederates, he answered that he knew by official investigation and by personal observation that it had
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)
ester county, S. C., March 10, 1841. He was educated in Columbia, and had just completed the study of engineering when the war commenced. He enlisted on January 1, 1861, as a private in the Columbia flying artillery, under the command of Capt. Allen J. Green, and a few days after his enlistment he became sergeant. After the fall of Fort Sumter the company of artillery was disbanded and he then enlisted as a private in Company A, of the First (Gregg's) South Carolina infantry. In the followinlton, after whose death, in 1884, he married his present wife, in 1886. She was Miss Mattie Ward, of Baltimore. Judge Hill has six children, one son and five daughters. Captain Augustus Dewitt Hoke Captain Augustus DeWitt Hoke was born in Green. ville, S. C., November 27, 1834, a son of David Hoke. He took a four years course in the Citadel academy of Charleston, after which he completed a medical course in the Jefferson medical college, of Philadelphia, and was practicing his profes
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
in which the public are concerned, at their work. The rage for volunteering or active service is so great that we, in the Mercury office, have had the utmost difficulty in restraining our clerks, printers and employees, and keeping them in this branch of the public service. In addition to our own troubles, we learn, too, that the postmaster is left in the same dilemma from the same cause, and that allowances must be made in the delivery of the mail. The Columbia Artillery, Capt. Allen J. Green, numbering about fifty men, arrived yesterday in the afternoon train to join their Charleston brethren-in-arms in the defence of the harbor. They were met at the depot and escorted by a detachment of the Richardson Guards, (composed of members of the Palmetto Fire Company.) The whole body, preceded by fine music, marched down to the boat, where the Columbians embarked amid the cheers of the crowd assembled on the wharf. They were also greeted with a round of huzzas as they passed th