454 Series I Volume XXVIII-I Serial 46 - Ft. Sumter - Ft. Wagner Part I
| Page 454 | S.C. AND GA. COASTS, AND IN MID. AND E.FLA. Chapter XL. |
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, July 15, 1863.
CAPTAIN: The following dispatch has just been sent from the enemy's fleet:
General GILLMORE:
GENERAL: Will you begin to-morrow, as you intended, and at what time will you begin firing, and when will the assault be made? I wish the vessels to open fire as soon as the batteries. Please answer immediately, as I wish to complete my arrangements.
D. [DAHLGREN.]
This is reliable and we could not get answer from Gillmore.
LAWRENCE M. KEITT,
Colonel.
Captain W. F. NANCE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, July 18, 1863.
"Colonel RHETT:
"The following message has just been intercepted from the enemy, to wit:
An assault is ordered at dusk. Husban your ammunition so as to deliver a rapid fire the last half hour.
"TURNER."
LAWRENCE M. KEITT.
(Repeated by Major O. Blanding to Captain Nance.)
HEADQUARTERS BATTERY WAGNER,
August 1, 1863-6 p.m.CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that on my arrival this morning* I found the following garrison at this battery:
Infantry:
54th Georgia, Lieutenant-Colonel Rawls, present, about... 388
51st North Carolina, Colonel [Hector] McKethan, present,
about................................................... 474
20th South Carolina, Lieutenant-Colonel Dantzler,
present, about.......................................... 460
19th Georgia, Colonel [A. J.] Hutchins, present, about.... 260
Artillery:
Company A, Second South Carolina, Captain W. M. Hunter...... 70
Company E, Charleston Battalion, Captain [F. T.] Miles.... 46
Detachment Chatham Artillery, Lieutenant T. A. Askew.......... 29
Detachment Company C, Siege Train, Captain Thomas E. Gregg. 26
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Total.................................................... 1,753
These numbers are approximative, and about 150 are more or less sick.
The Fifty-fourth Georgia was stationed to-day in the sand-hills, in reserve, and is in readiness to leave on the arrival of the Charleston Battalion, which will furnish labor at Cumming's Point and guard the beach to-night. The Nineteenth Georgia furnishes the picket and reserve in the fort to-night, and the Fifty-first North Carolina
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*When, according to Ripley's report of August 2 (p.384), he relieved Clingman in command.
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