. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . THE CAPTURE OF MORRIS ISLAND and the troops were g-lad to seek protection l)eliin(l thesand hills of the ishmds and get needed rest and firing from ^\agner had now l^ecome continuousand occasional shots from Fort Sumter and from FortJohnson on James Island came plowing- along- the broadbeach and ricocheting over the sand hills down among our men. A group. of officers, myselfamong the number, were sitting underthe protection ofone of thosetreacherous sandhills; a pail of but-ter, which had beenfound in a rebeltent was l^etween
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . THE CAPTURE OF MORRIS ISLAND and the troops were g-lad to seek protection l)eliin(l thesand hills of the ishmds and get needed rest and firing from ^\agner had now l^ecome continuousand occasional shots from Fort Sumter and from FortJohnson on James Island came plowing- along- the broadbeach and ricocheting over the sand hills down among our men. A group. of officers, myselfamong the number, were sitting underthe protection ofone of thosetreacherous sandhills; a pail of but-ter, which had beenfound in a rebeltent was l^etweenus. and we wereenjo}ing- the lux-ury of hard-tackand butter. whena shell came plow-ing over the sands,bounding and strik-ing within a few LIEUT. J. HOMER EDGERLY. fget of US, UCarlv burying the whole party with dirt and demolishing ourpail of butter, striking Colonel Bedel upon the leg as hesat upon the ground, wheeling him around and over andover like a tenpin. The colonel was soon on his feet again, however,covered with dirt, his eyes, nose arid mouth full of it, butyelling with a vigor characteristic of the man, and withlanguage more forceful than elegant, ^^llere in H— isour butter? Wheres our butter? the next instant 233 REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION picking up the shell a few rods away with the fuse still])iirning- and throwing it down the beach into the water. As the shot and shell from Sumter
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