. 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 . c<ir^ — A SLAVE CABIN. CHAPTER V. RIGADIER-GENERAL Isaac I. Stevens, commandingthe Second Brigade of the Deparrment of the South,received orders to intercept the enemy by destroyingthe Charleston and Savannah Railroad near the vil-lage of Pocotaligo. News had been received fromthe scouts that the enemy was moving in force fromGrahamville and McPhersonville, and it was to pre-vent the massing of a large a
. 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 . c<ir^ — A SLAVE CABIN. CHAPTER V. RIGADIER-GENERAL Isaac I. Stevens, commandingthe Second Brigade of the Deparrment of the South,received orders to intercept the enemy by destroyingthe Charleston and Savannah Railroad near the vil-lage of Pocotaligo. News had been received fromthe scouts that the enemy was moving in force fromGrahamville and McPhersonville, and it was to pre-vent the massing of a large army at that point that the expedition wasplanned. Gen. Stevens at once commenced to make his arrangements with thatenergy which always characterized him. Lieut. Brown, of the 8th Michigan,was dispatched to the advanced posts with orders to Capt. Lewis to bring tothe ferry all the boats at Seabrook and other points. Lieut. Adams, 50thPennsylvania Volunteers, was sent to Ladies Island with similar orders toCapt. Dimock, in command of the Island. They took twelve flats andboats to the ferry before the arrival of the troops. Twelve fiats, including one small ferryboat, were started from Beaufortat oclock, each flat ma
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