. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . DRUMMER BOYS. 251 CHAPTER XII. THE FIGHT AT GRIMBALLS LANDING, JAMES HARLESTON was again the point against which allthe power of the Unionists in the Department of theSouth was to be concentrated. Charleston must be defended at any cost to lifeor property, and the people of South Carolina wouldprefer a repulse of the enemy with the entire city inruins to an evacuation or surrender on any termswhatever. This was
. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . DRUMMER BOYS. 251 CHAPTER XII. THE FIGHT AT GRIMBALLS LANDING, JAMES HARLESTON was again the point against which allthe power of the Unionists in the Department of theSouth was to be concentrated. Charleston must be defended at any cost to lifeor property, and the people of South Carolina wouldprefer a repulse of the enemy with the entire city inruins to an evacuation or surrender on any termswhatever. This was the resolution of the people ofSouth Carolina in convention assembled. The Unionists were equally determined that the city should July 12, 1863, the First Connecticut Light Battery was called uponto take part in the third expedition against Charleston, The Battery, now having only four guns, left Beaufort on Sunday nightabout 10 oclock, loaded on an old New York ferryboat. Comrade Tall-madge says that life on that ferryboat was one of positive torture. It hadto keep close to the shore, and very often the bottom of the boat gratedon the sand bars and mud. It was a case of bumpety bump, with theexpectation of finding the boat going to piec
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