Morris Island

I was also able to take a gun all apart and put it together again.

Between Barnwell and the mainland was Hall Island.

I went over there several times with Sergeant King and other comrades.

One night there was a stir in camp when it was found that the rebels were trying to cross, and next morning Lieutenant Parker told me he thought they were on Hall Island, so that after that I did not go over again.

While planning for the expedition up the Edisto River, colonel higginson was a whole night in the water trying to locate the rebels and where their picket lines were situated about july the boys went up the edisto to destroy a bridge on the charleston and savannah road this expedition was twenty or more miles into the mainland colonel higginson was wounded in this fight and the regiment nearly captured the steamboat john adams always assisted us carrying soldiers provisions etc she carried several guns and a good gunner edward heron henry batchelot a relative of mine was a steward on this boat there were two smaller boats governor milton and the enoch dean in the fleet as these could go up the river better than the large ones could i often went aboard the john adams it went with us into jacksonville to coal and folly island and gunner heron was always ready to send a shell at the enemy one night companies k and e on their way to pocatalogo to destroy a battery that was situated down the river captured several prisoners the rebels nearly captured sergeant king who as he sprang and caught a reb fell over an embankment in falling he did not release his hold on his prisoner although his hip was severely injured he held fast until some of his comrades came to his aid and pulled them up these expeditions were very dangerous sometimes the men had to go five or ten miles during the night over on the rebel side and capture or destroy whatever they could find While at Camp Shaw, there was a deserter who came into Beaufort.

He was allowed his freedom about the city and was not molested.

She was a beautiful woman.

I can see her pleasant face before me now, as she, with Captain Trowbridge, would sit and converse with me in my tent two or three hours at a time.

In place of these, some of the guns and carriages were sent over from Castle Pickney.

No attempt had been made to fortify the Morris Island Channel, and vessels could enter there without the slightest difficulty.

It took several days to transfer the guns and make the preparations I have mentioned.

It follows, therefore, that if the administration had acted promptly, Charleston could have been taken at once and full reparation exacted for all the wrongs perpetrated against the United States.

The other defect, the presence of so much combustible matter in the quarters, was impossible to remedy, and it ultimately cost the loss of the fort.

The excuse that it never could have been anticipated that the fort would be attacked from the land side is hardly a valid one.

for a foreign fleet might possibly have effected a landing on Morris Island or they might have set fire to the quarters from the decks of the vessels by means of incendiary shells.

As may well be supposed, there was a great deal of excitement in New York in relation to us and in the view of the small number of men available for service in the regular army.

There's one to our right at Jane Island.

Beyond that, still another battery at Cummings Point, the Morris Island guns.

Across the harbor to my left are the Mount Pleasant guns, and to the right of them, the Fort Moultrie and Sullivan Island batteries.

Hundreds of civilians of Charleston are lining the promenade at the battery, Charleston's waterfront.