. 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 . other roads by which the enemy might approach. The smallnessof the list of killed and wounded presented after such protracted firing isaccounted for by the thorough protection afforded the skirmishers by thebanks of the canal, of the shelter of which they availed themselves inretreating by a line parallel to that of the enemy, rejoining their horses bya circuit to the left. Col. Walker reports the casualties as two kill
. 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 . other roads by which the enemy might approach. The smallnessof the list of killed and wounded presented after such protracted firing isaccounted for by the thorough protection afforded the skirmishers by thebanks of the canal, of the shelter of which they availed themselves inretreating by a line parallel to that of the enemy, rejoining their horses bya circuit to the left. Col. Walker reports the casualties as two killed, six wounded andone missing. In acknowledging the report Maj. J. R. Waddy, Assistant-Adjutant-General of the Confederate Third District of South Carolina and Georgia,writes: The Major-General commanding directs me to thank that portion ofthe troops engaged for their gallant, noble and daring conduct on thatoccasion in meeting and holding in check a much larger force for severalhours, fighting the enemy at every available point with the iisual gallantry,thus saving the railroad from capture. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1SG5 131 CHAPTER VI. SKIRMISHING ON JAMES OR a long time, in fact throughout the war, there hadbeen a strong desire to capture, or punish, the City ofCharleston, which was looked upon as the cradle ofsecession, and also to close its harbor to blockaderunners. Elaborate and costly operations on the seawardside were maintained for a long time, but with verylittle success. The city was well protected naturally, the lowlands thatstretch out several miles south of the harbor are intersected by manywinding rivers and little inlets and broken up by swamps. The planters had selected a very pretty location about four and a halfmiles south of the city as a summer residential resort, which they hadcalled Secessionville. The village lies on the highest ground of JamesIsland and is bounded by a deep creek on one side and a shallow one on theother. On the neck of la
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