198 Series I Volume XXVIII-II Serial 47 - Ft. Sumter - Ft. Wagner Part II
| Page 198 | S.C. AND GA.COASTS, AND IN MID. AND E.FLA. Chapter XL. |
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. S. C., GA., AND. FLA., Numbers 140.
Charleston, S. C., July 13, 1863.* * * *
VII. Brigadier-General Taliaferro will report to Brigadier-General Ripley for assignment to command to command and duty.
* * * *
By command of General Beauregard:
JNO. M. OTEY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.CHARLESTON, S. C., July 14, 1863.
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:
Nothing worth reporting since yesterday. Enemy still working hard on Morris Island batteries. I intended attempting to drive him off the island last night, but, for reasons to be communicated by letter, it could not be done. The defensive there must reluctantly be adopted, prolonging contest as long as our available means will permit. I shall fortify Fort Johnson and Sullivan's Island strongly as practicable. Brooke and 10-inch guns are indispensable for that object.
G. T. BEAUREGARD.
HDQRS. DEPT. SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND FLORIDA,
Charleston, S. C., July 14, 1863.D. B. HARRIS,
Lieutenant-Colonel, and Chief Engineer:
COLONEL: Upon reflection, it is better not to destroy anything about the Marsh Battery, as we may still complete it after having finished the Shell Point Battery.
Instead of constructing those two field batteries near Legare's for two pieces each, make them large enough for four pieces, to be supported by rifle-pits and four companies of infantry to each battery. Afterward we will construct in that vicinity one or two mortar batteries against Black Island.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
G. T. BEAUREGARD,
General, Commanding.
HDQRS. DEPT. SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND FLORIDA,
Charleston, S. C., July 14, 1863.Lieutenant Colonel D. B. HARRIS,
Chief Engineer Department, Charleston, S. C.:
COLONEL: I gave you this morning the probable armament of those two batteries near Legare's; since them I find we have some guns on siege carriages which I wish to substitute for the field guns already referred to. You will, in consequence, make those batteries accordingly.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
G. T. BEAUREGARD,
General, Commanding.
| Page 198 | S.C. AND GA.COASTS, AND IN MID. AND E.FLA. Chapter XL. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments