. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . attack was for the army to co-op-erate by landing in surf boats, but this was made impos-sible from the loss of so many boats. General Shermanhad now nothing more to do than to land his troops andtake possession. The enemy had retreated in great dis-order. Many of their dead were found in the forts, andall along the roadway across the Island, through thefields and woods, were found disabled baggage wagons,arms and equipments, and army supplies of all kinds, andmany dead rebel soldiers, who were killed by our shells,when fleeing across th
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . attack was for the army to co-op-erate by landing in surf boats, but this was made impos-sible from the loss of so many boats. General Shermanhad now nothing more to do than to land his troops andtake possession. The enemy had retreated in great dis-order. Many of their dead were found in the forts, andall along the roadway across the Island, through thefields and woods, were found disabled baggage wagons,arms and equipments, and army supplies of all kinds, andmany dead rebel soldiers, who were killed by our shells,when fleeing across the country. On the night of the landing we were ordered intocamp, something less than a mile away, and in a largecotton field. The cotton, by the way. was the celebratedSea Island cotton, of fine texture and long fibre, and veryvaluable at that time. The breaking out of war had sentthe price of cotton sky-rocketing-, this Sea Island cottonselling at a price something like 75 cents a pound, but itproved none too good for the boys to use for their beds 66. ATTACK UPON PORT ROYAL. that night, the cotton being in just the condition to bepi< ked. Acres upon acres of it, and if every man did nothave a soft bed it was his own fault. AVe found ourselvestoo, surrounded by immense fields of sweet potatoes andpeanuts; to say that we luxuriated upon sweet potatoesafter living for two weeks and more upon the starvationdiet afforded on ship-board, is stating it mildly. It was days before the ships could be unloaded: de-tails were made from each regiment to look after theirown baggage. I was ordered by the adjutant upon thespecial duty of looking after the baggage of the adju-tants office, particularly the records and office supplies,all this work being done under the direction of the quar-ter-master of each regiment. Going to the landing placewith our regimental detail, we found the beach for nearlya mile strewn with baggage and camp equipage of everyconceivable kind, which had been unload
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