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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 1]<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">[Cover page]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">From July 1862 to Nov 1863</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 2]<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">[Blank page]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 3]<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">[illegible] - Private. - 1862</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">After the evacuation of James Isld. by the enemy, during the 1st week in July, our Regt. struck its camp on Royal’s place & moved over to Secessionville, July 9th 1862. The 51st Leu. Col. Slaughter, with Smith’s Batt (afterwards combined with Byrd’s Batt. to form the 26th S.C.V.) and two, or three, companies of Lamar’s Regl. Artly. together with the 24th formed the Garrison of Secessionville after this date. - Slaughter was ordered to Virginia about the middle of July & the 1st S.C.V. Col. Hagood succeeded. - Hagood was made Brigadier in latter part of July & Glover forwarded. During the second week in August Glover, with the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">12</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 22d, 23d, [illegible] Legions,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">James Batt. Bryce’s Battery & other troops, with Genls. Evans & Drayton, were ordered from our coast to Va. Subsequently Smith’s Batt. was ordered to Adams Run, & the 8th Geo. Batt. substitutes, since which times, & up to this date (Dec. 9th 1862) the garrison of Secessionville has been composed of one Regt. (24th) one inft. Batt. (8th Geo.) & one batt. of the arty. Regt. Col. Lamar’s, which has charge of the guns at fort Lamar. - I have been for the most in command, Col. Stevens Comdg. the Isld. - On the 11th of August. ordered to be one of a board of examiners - Took a short furlough on the 13th to the 18th, on which latter day brought my family, Lottie & Frank, to city &</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">took rooms at Mills House. - Board at first met at Ft. Johnson but removed to city after first week’s work. - In the city until the 13th of Oct. ordered back to coast. - 14th my birthday - 25 today - Rode over to the city spent a short time during the afternoon with Lottie at the Charleston Hotel. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">17 & 18</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">Oct</span><span style="font-weight:400;">. Moved Lottie & Frank to Columbia & secure board at Dr. Jeff. Goodwyn’s, $100 fr. month, wife, child (18 mo old) & two servants. Night of 18th left Columbia for Ch. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">AM 11th</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> our daughter, the second, born, & I got the intelligence of it on the evening of the 12th at P.O. in city.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Nov. 17 - Monday - Rode</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">over to [illegible] - stopped at Mr. Sagr’s - I am sick [illegible] - Inflammation of the [illegible] the bladder. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">AM 18 - left Sagr’s at night & took [illegible] for Columbia at 8:20 P.M. Arrive at Dr G’s at 6 A.M.on Nov. 19th. - On the 6th of Dec. [illegible] baptised our own little daughter, Susan McGill. - Evening of the 6th started for Secessionville & arrived on Sunday at noon.-. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">7th, 8th, & 9th very cold. - Today (9th) Genl. Gist visits the Isld. & dined with me.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 10 - Clear & cold - nothing of interest occurs. Col. Stevens left last for Pendleton, having heard of the illness of his son Hamilton. - [illegible words] </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">for August. Oct. & Nov. presented by my friend Holmes $66.78. - Four Iron boats reported in Stono today - two above & two below battery Isld.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 11th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Clear & cold morning. Palmer & [illegible] rode to city as witnesses in case of [illegible], Williamson & Buckham. - Dined with [illegible]. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 12th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Clear & pleasant. - Morning paper reports enemy attempting to cross the Rappahannock, but repulsed. Last night, a year ago, I spent the night on “Clark’s Bay”, as Lt. Col. of the Rifle Regt. S.C.M. with [illegible words] of men as [illegible]</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">forty. - Saw the [illegible] fire in Charleston.-</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 13-<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Saturday - clear, but warm - an Indian Summer morning.- Inspection day. - Four letters from Lottie, written on Wednesday, Thurs. & Friday-</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 14th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Orders to get Regt. ready to march - four days rations, two tents to a company, & two to field & staff - 24th S.C., 25th S.C. & 46 Geo. with [illegible words] & me when the Battery - where to, at this writing 8 a.m. do not know.- Pleasant <del>day</del> morning.- Pickets at [illegible] shelled by enemy’s Iron Boat lying off Battery Isld. Get the order to move to the N.E.R.R. Depot at 8½ P.M. Regl. left Secessionville, six hundred [illegible] men, about, at 11½ </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">P.M. Marched to Depot by 3½ AM on the 15th -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">15th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Took the 24th till 2 P.M. to get off - [illegible], & most of those used had to be unloaded. Learned of Evans repulse at Kingston & of Yankee advance W. & W.R.R.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 16th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">At 2 P.M. got to Wilmington - Bivouaced</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">about one mile from the city -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 17<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Ordered to move nearer the city & W. & W.R.R. Marched to Camp Lamb, & received order to proceed with the 24th to Preston’s Light Battery to the North East rivers, at the [illegible] point where it is covered by the R. R. for the protection of R.R. Bridge arrive at about 3 P.M. by R.R. Relieve the guard at the Bridge, & dispose of the artillery at the </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">ferry & the Bridge - send Co. “A” beyond as an outpost [illegible] Bivouac for the night - no news - no papers - how different from the life at Secessionville - ah! how different from the life at my Lottie’s side! - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 18<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Dispose of the force under my command for the defence of the Bridge more perfectly.- Ride with Preston, Agier & Palmer, first across the river to the outlook & then to a [illegible words], on this side.- a report, at night. That we are ordered forwarded, perhaps to a point as near Goldsboro as possible, with a view to cooperating with Genl. [illegible] Smith’s army, at Goldsboro.- Smith superseded Evans, from Richmond - 25th S.C.V. the 6th Geo. Pass on up the road. - Addison, [illegible words] Srgt. returns from Wilmington, & brings news of our</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">great victory on the Rapahannock & of the repulse of the enemy at Goldsboro by Genl. Smith. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 19<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">[illegible words] - 10 & 20th a.m. sent adjt. to town, 9 miles - I am writing in front of my tent, while the Band, at the Regl. Bivouac, is pleasing - a pretty fine game. The soldier’s life! Here we are - waiting orders - It may be forward, or backward, or halt! God’s providence is the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">same </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[illegible] - To His good cause I commit my angel wife, & my little ones, & go on to the conflict for right & justice; for independence. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 20th Saturday-<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Orders to move to Magnolia to the support of Genl. [illegible] Smith countermanded in consequence of the enemy’s [illegible] from the R.R. Rode into city in answer to summons from Genl. Gist - Genl. wishes to</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">know if I desire to be relieved from duty here. - I expressed my satisfaction with my post, & said I was ready to take any post, to which the orders of my superiors in the service assigned me. It is a principle with me not to influence my own position - my life, under God’s providence, is in the keeping & subject to the orders of my country. - Agier & myself spent the night in Wilmington - Got Lottie’s first letter [illegible] to Wilmington.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">21st Sunday - <br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Very cold - another letter from my cherished wife - a cold ride to the Bivouac on the N.E.R. no definite news - an uncomfortable</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">sabbath. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">22nd<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Still no news & very cold - Preston & I ride down to the Island Creek & across to the Main Plank road, & down to the sound - a beautiful view of the sea. - A letter from my wife. All well - Thank God - Col. Stevens returns to us, after a long period of detached duty. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">23rd<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">The Wilmington Journal brings Genl. Lee’s report of the battle of Fredericksburg on the 13th [illegible] - & telegraph the news from the north. A most charming day. Col. S. & I take a long ride - across the ferry the Lance’s Ferry, some 9 to 10 miles distant. The plantations on the </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">the river lie beautifully & seem to produce well. - Conn is the main camp with a large proportion of ground [illegible]. The boys are [illegible] very good, & in fine order. - Bowie, Agier, Palmer & I have an Egg nog at 11 P.M.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">24th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Opens cloudy. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">25th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Christmas! Preston & I rode into Wilmington. - Dined in camps - Egg nog at night. - Lt. Col. Pressley, 25th T.C.V. rode out to camp with me, & dined.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">27th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Attention called to recent act of Legislation (S.C.) appealing the action of the Ex. Council in appointing the field officers of the 24th & giving [illegible] to the Regl. to check. - Col. Stevens and I</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">resign - Major Hammond resigned previously, ill health. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">28th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Col. Stevens & self road down to Isld. Creek., & selected points on which to [illegible] - up field works in order to strengthen the point as an outpost station. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">29- <br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Go down to Isld. Creek, 5 miles, & lay out a Redan in Grady’s hill, & with James’ Co. “E.” progress considerably towards its completion. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">30th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Finish Redan & lay out on [illegible] Blake’s hill a simple field work & begin the [illegible]. James Co. “E” relieved by [illegible] Co. “C”.-</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">31st<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Work on curtain & planks of the work at Blake’s hill -</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">January 1st 1863<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Finish earth work, & cut road through swamp connecting the batteries, & begin clearing up swamp in front of the Blake work so as to give a command of the Bridge, crossing Isld. Creek.. Complete the work. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Writing in margin] See diagram ahead, on this side of creek. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Jan. 2d<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Our brigade moving back to Charleston - 24th ordered to be ready. - Addison’s Co. “D” with axes go down & open the way to the bridge, in front of the Grady battery. The falling of a tree occasioned a severe accident to my left leg. - No bones broken only a bruise. - Transformation from Regl. ready. - will move at 9 a.m.tomorrow. So ordered, am [illegible words]. -</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Jan. 3rd - Rise at 5 - Move at 9. I accept invitation to ride in buggy with neighbor Matt - my leg very sore & stiff. Halfway to Wilmington the 24th is stopped by order from Whiting (Genl) to turn back, Genl. Beauregard having ordered by telegram that the troops must delay the movement from this point. - This in consequence of a dispatch from Genl. [illegible] Smith, sent in cipher, & read by Beauregard - Genl. Whiting believes advance of enemy in this city - Think not - I think on Goldsboro or [illegible], if at all. - Take lunch with Mr. Smith, & ride back with him to his house, to spend the night. - A very pleasant evening, notwithstanding the leg. - As a matter of curiosity I will record the prices I saw </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">today, in Wilmington:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">1 pr. brass spurs </span> <span style="font-weight:400;"> $</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">6.00<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">1 webbing & leather halter</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">5.00<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">1 leather [illegible]</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">4.00<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">[illegible]</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">4.00<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">1 pr. silk brown gloves</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">1.50<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">1 black silk stock</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">3.00<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">2 packages envelopes</span> <span style="font-weight:400;"> .50<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Writing paper [illegible]</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">2.00<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">31.00</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Jany 4th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Sunday - After breakfast, bid good morning to kind friends and walk part of the way to camp, riding to the main road with [illegible] of the ladies on their way [illegible]. Genl. Whiting writes us [illegible words] as must look out for the enemy, whom he believes to be advancing from Newbern on this place. - A very pleasant day so far. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Jany 13th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">I write this note while in the swamp, just before Isld. Creek - 20th of 4 P.M. This has been a lovely day - It is now a most charming afternoon. - I have been constantly employed during the past week, and are now so, in throwing up on earth work across Grady’s field, in advance of the Batteries I erected the week before the last - the men are now engaged on the two last [illegible], & I hope to complete it tomorrow - The left [illegible] on a heavy swamp, to the right on an abattis of fallen timber, now being felled, and an informidable, swampy country. - We expect to make a decided stand here. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[See scan of diary for drawing]</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Since writing the last note, the news of Genl. Bragg’s great conflict in the week has reached us! Poor Kingsman has died - Vicksburg has repelled the invaders again, & in her defence Paul Hamilton, my noble pupil, has shed his heart blood! [illegible] Frank was married on the 1st by Bridg. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Jany 21st<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Since writing last the most interesting occurrence which has transpired was the capture of the wrecked steamer Columbia off Masonboro Sound- She ran ashore, & surrendered to Col. Lamb of Ft. Fisher, 12 officers & 35 seamen prisoners. - The weather for the past three days has been unsettled and very unpleasant - we have no definite news from the enemy. - He is moving from </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Newbern in some direction, but where, or in what force, no one knows. - Yesterday & the day before I was engaged in cutting a road through the woods, connecting the Ferry with the R.R. Bridge on the North East, at this point. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sunday night - Jany. 25th.<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">A clear, pleasant day after a week of mist, wind & rain - the enemy sent a force of cavalry, artillery & infantry estimated at 1500 as far as within four miles of Anslow Court House, on yesterday week - this party was fired into by cavalry & retired. A refugee from More Head city reports to Genl. Whiting that the enemy is awaiting fair weather to attack the city. - </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Today I have attended first the Regimental Inspection & after dinner took a ride up the Duplin Road some 8 miles with Col. Stevens. - Got back at sunset. Yesterday morning I took a deer hunt. Startled a deer but he ran by my stand without my seeing him. Day before yesterday, planked the North East R.R. Bridge. I am quite well tonight. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Tuesday - Jany 27th 1862<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">A warm day - wind from the <del>North</del> South West. Nothing of interest transpired since last note. Today is the day fixed for my family to move from Columbia to Cherry Grove, via Charleston - May God’s good providence shield them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Wednesday - 28th<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">In Prest. Davis’ last</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">message he alludes, most touchingly, to the devotion of our noble and patriotic women to the great cause of our independence, & says in concluding: “In the homes of our noble and devoted women, without whose sublime sacrifices our success would have been impossible, the noise of the loom and the spinning wheel may be heard throughout the land!” - In my experience I have found this to be literally so - In our Regt until a few days past, during which clothing has been issued to the men from the Qrs. Master’s Dept. many of our men were clad in the homespun, spun & made in most instances, by their wifes & sisters, and in all cases, in their immediate</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">neighborhood. - Two of our companies, from Edgefield, were entirely clad in such. I have met men who had not a </span><span style="font-weight:400;">single</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> imported or Yankee made articles; hat, shirt, drawers, coat, pants, socks, gloves & shoes, all made at home. There is a most interesting character in this neighborhood, living on Isld. Creek, with whom I have been most interested. She is an old widow lady, say 50, who lives by herself, except when a little niece spends a short while with her, her two sons, the only children she has, being privates in one of the North Carolina Regts. She showed me their daguerreotypes</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">taken in their homespun uniforms, and they are fine looking young men. This noble old woman, spins & weaves their clothing, & knits their socks & gloves. By her industry, she manages to take in sewing sufficient to defray her expenses, with what little aid her brave boys afford her. - One of them, she told me, had been in sixteen engagements with the enemy and had not been hurt - May God spare their lives to be a blessing & a comfort to the old age of their noble mother. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sunday - Feby.1st 1863<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">A cloudy morning. - Since the 28th of last month, the </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">news from the North is cheering. - Indications of a peace movement at the North are decided. - Yankee correspondents writing from Europe think our resignation a foregone conclusion. Burnside has resigned.- Horace Greely has openly declared his want of confidence in the ability of his people to maintain the struggle. - Some of the papers are openly calling for peace, & the fearless [illegible] horn has sounded the call in thunder tones in the Yankee Congress. - May God continue to bless us. - Yesterday, heard of the safe arrival of my family in Charleston, & of their being enroute for Cherry </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Grove, via Pinopolis. - Our camp was enlivened on yesterday by the news that our troops had captured a Gun Boat in Stone River; our old station, and at night, by the glorious news that our Gun Boats, the Chicora & Palmetto State, had triumphantly driven the Blockading squadron from the Charleston harbor, sinking two vessels & firing a third! The rascals had taken a vessel a few days ago bringing in a valuable cargo for the Port - consisting of 900 tons; being [illegible words]. - The month of January has been signifized by our successes over the Yankee Gun Boats and Transports! On the 1st of Jany. - </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genl. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Magruder </span><span style="font-weight:400;"> recaptured Galveston, Texas, taking the enemy’s Gun Boat </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Harriet Lane</span><span style="font-weight:400;">, causing the burning of the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Westfield</span><span style="font-weight:400;">, and the retreat of the entire fleet from the harbor - shortly after the enemy’s boat </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Hatteras</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> made out at a “strange sail”, from the enemy’s fleet on the Gulf, and was sunk by the stranger, who is now supposed to be the Lane. Genls. Wheeler & Morgan have been sinking the enemy’s transports - in the Cumberland & capturning & destroying his vessels of war. - The steamer Columbia, 7 guns, went ashore off Masonboro Inlet, in this state, & was captured with 48 prisoners. At Charleston, the [illegible]</span></p>
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<ol><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Smith was captured in the Stono on Friday, and on yesterday morning, the 31st [illegible words] Ironclad’s sank two of the blockaders, & dispensed the rest. -</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">11th of February - My precious wife’s birthday! A clear Sping-like morning - most lovely. My spirit prays that the angel of my heart may live to bless me for many, </span><span style="font-weight:400;">many</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> births days to come. - On her last birthday we dined together at Mr. Yeadon’s in Charleston - I was there in command of the camp of Instruction in St. Andrews Parish. - On that birth day season God blessed our love & we were happy together, but </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">today finds us separated, by long miles. But we both feel that God’s good providence is over us, & by his gracious care we hope to be again united. Amen & amen! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">During the past two days the [illegible] of an attack on Wilmington have become much less pointed, & our attention is now drawn to Charleston & Savannah, by the collection (reported) of a large fleet of transports, gunboats & Iron Clads, at Beaufort S.C. of this we have the report of the correspondents of the Northern [illegible] from Ft. Royal, and of scouts who have penetrated the </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">enemy’s lines, beside the appearance of the “Ironsides” off Charleston, & the attack of the [illegible] on the Battery at [illegible] Point. The large force which has been threatening us from New Bern & Morehead city, is supposed to have gone to Beaufort S.C. & the correspondent [illegible] to expects on her troops. - Our Brigade (25th, 16th, 24th, Nelson Batt. S.C.V. & 46th Geo.) [written in margin of page] with Preston’s, [illegible] & Culpepper’s Batteries are moving. The 25th & N.B. have gone & the remainder expect to leave this week. Genl. Beauregard</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">expects an attack on one, or both, of the cities. - My friend & immediate commander, Col. Stevens, has heard of the death of his gallant brother</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Lieut. H. K. Stevens C.S.V. He died in defence of the C.S.S. “Cotton” on the Red River about the 18th of Jany. He was a noble spirit.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Camp near Pocotaligo, S.C. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Feby- 20th 1863. -<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">The 24th left Wilmington on the evening of the 12th [illegible] & arrived at Charleston at 12 [illegible] on the 13th. - Camped on the Citadel Green - I stopped at St. Stephens, got horse of Dutchman & rode on to Cherry Grove where I met my precious family, quite well - Thank God. Spent Saturday & left Sunday morning at 3 - our camp on the Green was a pleasant one. - We were ordered to move to Pocotaligo</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 33]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">on the morning of the 18th & left camp at 3 ½ P.M. embarking at Sar. R.R. Depot At 8 P.M. & arriving at Pocotaligo at 1 AM on the 19th. - We are now (20th) encamped on the main stage road from Salkehatchie to Coosawhatchie & about one mile from Pocotaligo station. - We have no definite news of the enemy. I understand their force at Hilton Head & [illegible] Islands. [illegible] to 20,000 - the indications of dissatisfaction in the North West are very evident, if reliance can be placed in the representations of the Press. May God’s providence so ordain events as to bring them all to [illegible] upon the mind & heart of our enemy & insure a speedy end</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 34]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">to our troubles & give us an honorable peace. - Here we are commanded by Brig. Genl. Walker, who was so promoted for gallant & meritorious conduct at the Battle of Pocotaligo, fought & won by the troops under his command on the 21st of October 1862. Our camp is pitched on the spot occupied by [illegible] Regt. of “Reserves”, whose time of service, these months, having expired, has gone home! Genl. Beauregard & the Sec. of War, feeling the necessity of retaining the “Reserves” in service during the present emergency, telegraphed the Gov - to permit the same. The latter referred the matter to the Legislature, &</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 35]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">that body, actually permitted the disbanding of eight well armed Regts. of So. Ga. troops </span><span style="font-weight:400;">in</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">the</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">very</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">face</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">of</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">the</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">enemy</span><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span><span style="font-weight:400;">whose</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">threats</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">of</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">attack</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">are</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">more</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">serious</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">than</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">ever</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">before</span><span style="font-weight:400;">! The Gov. in his proclamation dated the 18th inst. calls out the Militia of the State in the stead of the Reserves. The Reserves were raised by the “Gov - & Council”, for the defence of the State. The Gov - calls out all persons between the ages of 16 & 18 and 40 & 50 years of age. - I noticed Genl. Magruder’s success at Galveston, & since that note was made, the Texas papers give an account of the raising of the Blockade at Sabine Pass by Maj. Watkins, under Genl. M’s orders. - The enemy’s </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 36]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">vessels, a ship & schooner were captured, & the former destroyed. - x x x x x</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Camp of Detachment 24th S.C.V. at Ballonville, on Combahee & Ashepoo Ferry Road, March 10th 1863. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Ordered to this point by Genl. Walker, with 200 men of the 24th. ([illegible] “F.”, “J.” & “H.”) [Note in margin of page] on the 6th week. - to support the Batteries on the Combahee & Ashepoo Rivers & the work on the peninsula between. - Nothing of very great importance has transpired since my last note. We are still in ignorance as to the enemy’s designs on our coast - Ft. McAllister has been bombarded, & has again repelled the attack. We hear through </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 37]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Northern papers of difficulties among the enemy on our Coast. Hunter & Foster quarrel, & go to Washington to settle the dispute - Foster is ordered back to Newbern - In the week, the enemy’s Iron clad boats “Queen of the West”, & “Indianola” have been captured. Van Dorn has vanquished the enemy near Nashville, taking a quantity of slaves, & upwards of 3000 prisoners. The telegram reports the advance of Banks on “Port Hudson”, & Rose Kranz on Bragg. - The peace party at the North & West are quiet - The Abolition Congress went out of power, leaving to Lincoln the right to suspend the [illegible words] at will, & marking him in fact, a military dictator. God</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 38]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">alone knows how this great conflict will end. Our enemies are mad, & their counsels are like the counsels of children. A firm & steady defiance is still called for at our hands. I give my share of it, relying upon God. - Sorry to see Genl. [illegible] Smith resign - & the Court of Inquiry acquit Genl. Evans of [illegible] charges. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In my private affairs all is well, thank God. My family, at Cherry Grove, in health, & I am in better flesh & health than ever before. - In thee! do I trust, O! God. Strengthen my heart. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">March 29th 1863<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Since writing last no very important fact has transpired. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 39]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">By Genl. Walker’s order I assumed command of all the troops between Ashepoo & Combahee Rivers, including those at the Ferry (Combahee) on the 6th inst. Geo. “D” 24th T.C.V. has been added to by command which now includes the following troops:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Cos. “F”, “H”, “I” & “D” 24th T.C.V. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Co. B 1st Batt. S.S.S.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">3 cos. 5th S.C.V. cavalry</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Capt. Boman’s Battery [illegible] artly. & one piece Preston’s Ft. Battery, with the fixed Batteries on Ashepoo & Combahee. - In the West the enemy made naval attack on Ft. Hutson & were repulsed, two of their vessels, the Brooklyn & Monongahela passed the Battery - Banks’ land forces advanced but failed to attack. - At expedition </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 40]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">up the Yazoo has failed to accomplish anything of great importance, & Rosecrantz has not yet intimated his designs. In No. Ga. Genl. D. H. Hill advanced against the enemy at Newbern, but with what results is not certainly known by me. We [illegible] that the enemy in our front are moving in the direction of Edisto Isld. So it is reported. My outposts have reported for the past four mornings a [illegible] of lights & [illegible] on St. Helena, where [illegible] troops were encamped. I have been busy, since camping here, at work on the [illegible] Combahee Ferry, & strengthening the position at stocks causeway, on the [illegible] Road. Since</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 41]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">writing the above I have ridden up to Green Pond Station & learned by Telegram from Genl. Hagood, Comd. 2d Mil. Dist. that the enemy’s fleet in North Edisto landed two Regts. in Seabrook’s Isld. yesterday evening. - [Illegible] Pickets captured a Srgt. & one private, yesterday, of these Regts. This is the most pointed demonstration the enemy has yet made, & it may indicate his intention against Charleston. This has been a day of almost constant rain, with some thunder lightning, in the early part of it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Illegible words] Port Secessionville</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">April 9th 1863<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Since writing my last note the enemy has clearly indicated his design against Charleston, & the 24th S.C.V. has been or-</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 42]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">dered to her defence. On the 4th inst. Genl. Hagood, Comd. the 2d Mil. Dist. telegraphed to Genl. Walker that four of the enemy’s Iron turreted boats were in the North Edisto, & subsequently, on the 5th, He reported their departure, bound in direction of Charleston. - I was ordered by telegram from Genl. Walker to [illegible] with the [illegible] companies of the 24th, & the Napoleon gun of Preston’s Battery at 1/4 to 3 a.m. on 4th, to Green Pond Station, for transportation to Charleston. Had to wait until 4 P.M. on the 5th for train. - On the morning of the 5th a telegram passed the Green Pond Station from Genl. Beauregard</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">to Genl. [illegible] reporting the enemy’s Iron Turrets off the Ch. [illegible] & a landing of troops </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 43]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">on Coles & Goat Islds. - I got to Charleston & [illegible] Depot at sunset on the 5th, marched to point on the Ft. Johnson Road, J.I. opposite Secessionville, & biovacked for the night - On the 6th moved over & took up our old camping ground at Secessionville. - Col. Stevens Comd. East Js. Isld & I the post of Secessionville & the 24th. Now stationed here, the 24th, 8th Geo. Batt. & a Batt. of the 2d Regt. S.C.V. artillery. Lt. Col. [illegible] - On the morning of the 6th [illegible] Rhett of Ft. Sumpter telegraphed to Col. Stevens that eight turrets & the Iron sides had crossed the Bar, & were lying off Morris Isld. - At 2 ½ P.M. on the 7th the lookout from</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 44]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">the observatory reported to me that the turrets were moving up Ship Channel - I took up my position on the observatory & saw them slowly heading up - Ft. Moultrie fired the first shot at ¼ to 3 P.M. [illegible] from turrets, were in line opposite Ft. Sumter & our Batteries were all firing. - The other turrets, with the Ironsides were still in Ship Channel, & unengaged, when I left the observatory at 3 ½ (to attend inspection of Regt.) but subsequently came into the action. It lasted until 5 ½ P.M. when the turrets withdrew. - Of the damage done to the enemy in this engagement I can not speak with anything like certainly. The “Keokuk”, one </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 45]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">of the turrets is reported by Col. Graham, Comdg. on Morris Isld. to be sunk off that Isld. & Col. Yates, from Sumter, telegraphed on yesterday, that she sunk at 9 a.m. of that day. - In addition to this, all of the Ironclad [illegible], used by the turrets to remove obstructions & explode torpedoes, is now ashore on Morris Isld. beach. - Of our own injury, I am not accurately informed. At Sumter, a ten inch gun was dismounted. & four or five men injured by bats, knocked out of an [illegible], which had been stopped up - at Moultrie one man was killed by the falling of the flag staff, & at Battery Wagner, on Morris Isld. three men</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 46]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">were killed & five wounded by the explosion of an ammunition chest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">April 11th 163<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Since writing the above nothing of importance has transpired. - The injury sustained by Ft. Sumter, against which the turrets directed their fire, principally, is considerable. - The Keokuk is certainly sunk. I expect the turrets to renew the attack tomorrow, if they can remain long enough under the fire of our Batteries to do so, they will knock Ft. Sumter down. - At present I make out only two Regt. encampments on Coles & </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 47]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Goat Islds. The indications of the enemy’s occupation of Folly Isld. are certain, but in what force, we do not know. - If he has not a large force then he certainly has but few troops about Charleston for they are not on Cole’s & Goat Isld. in any force. This morning Coles Isld. Harbor is studded with steamers & schooners, & the Iron Clads are still off Morris Isld. Lt. Col Dugan, 21st S.C.V. went over last night on little Folly Isld. and attacked the enemy’s outpost, killing one & bringing off a prisoner. Palmer has gone down Schooner Creek, reconnoitering - We will, maybe know something of him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 48]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">April 23 -<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Enemy did not attack next morning, but on the 12th, at high water, the turrets & the new Ironsides crossed the bar; <del>the</del> [illegible] but [illegible] for Ft. Royal - Land forces commenced leaving Coles Isld. same day. Today everything is quick. The enemy has not moved his force from Folly Isld. to our knowledge but in what force he is there, we can’t tell. Palmer’s scout alluded to in my note on the 11th did not amt. to more than seeing the enemy’s outpost on Folly Isld. In my “home circle” all is not well. - My jewels have the whooping cough, & little Sue is quite sick - Lottie</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 49]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">expected to go to Pinopolis on yesterday (22d) to escape the measles, now at Cherry Grove. - On Monday last, the 20th, Genl. Beauregard reviewed the troops of Jas. Isld. consisting of two Brigades Comd. by Genl. S. A Gist, the brigades being commanded by Genl. Clingman & Genl. Stevens - abt. 5,500 on the field. After Review, Genl. B. presented Battle flags to Regts. & Batteries - I responded in behalf of the Commands. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[See scan of diary for drawing] Beauregard’s Battle Flag. Stars white.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 50]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Pinopolis, Episcopal Passage, May 2d 1863. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I came hither on the 27th [illegible], to see my family - little Sue is quite unwell with the whooping cough - all the rest well, except Savannah, who has measles. No news from our enemy. I left everything quiet about Charleston. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In our room - Passage - May 6th / 63, before breakfast. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I leave this rooming for Charleston to join my Regt. which, with the 46 Geo. & 8th Geo. Batt. & the 16th S.C.V. has been ordered to Jackson Miss. - “The path of duty is the path of safety.” I go cheerfully, for whatever others may </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 51] </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">have done to influence my going, it is the voice of the country to </span><span style="font-weight:400;">me</span><span style="font-weight:400;">; I have said nothing, & now and now readily obey orders. - I leave my precious family here in the hands of a good & gracious God, & feel the most perfect assurance in His blessed providence & care. - I am </span><span style="font-weight:400;">satisfied</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> that all will be right & well with us. - In Miss. I will be no farther from God than at Successville, & He is my refuge & strength. The papers of yesterday bring us the glorious news of another victory on the [illegible words]! for a season. My angel, & my little ones. - “</span><span style="font-weight:400;">May</span><span style="font-weight:400;">” God bless you. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 52]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Eutawville, St. John’s [illegible].</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">July 19th 1863<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Two months & a half have elapsed since I bade my family goodbye, at Pinopolis, & started with my Regt. for Jackson Miss. Since that time important events have transpired. Our great cause has suffered disadvantage & defeat; & today, our army, under [illegible], defeated in Pennsylvania, is again on this side of the [illegible]; Vicksburg & Ft. Hudson having surrendered, our victorious enemy marches against Jackson for the second time, & for the second time drives Genl. Johnson from the city, where to, I am not informed; Bragg</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 53] </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">falls back to Chattanooga; and the city of Charleston is besieged by land & sea! July 1863 is indeed an eventful month in the history of our struggle. Lee fought at Gettysburg on the 1st 2d & 3d; - Vicksburg capitulated on the 4th; Ft. Hudson on the 9th; [illegible] on Morris Isld effected on 10th; Johnston retreats from Jackson on the 16th; and what else the remaining twelve days of this momentous July may develop God alone knows. - The 24th Regt. under my command, reached Jackson Miss. on the afternoon of the 13th of May, & found Genl. Grant’s forces marching on the city by the roads from Clinton, to the West, &</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 54]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Raymond, to the South West. Genl. Johnson arrived on train with Regt. [illegible] force at Jackson, almost 6000 being too feeble to dispute the enemy’s occupation of the city. Genl. J. retired towards Canton on the 14th, the 24th S.C.V. position of 46 Geo. 14 Miss. Nelson’s Co. of Geo. Cavalry, with a [illegible] Battery, covering the retirement from the Clinton road, meeting the enemy at about 9 & holding him until about 1 P.M. I was wounded, through right leg, below knee, at 12½. 24th lost some 20 killed, 30 made prisoners, & about 50 wounded. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 55]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Grant took possession on the 14th & on the 15th began his march to Vicksburg, meeting Pemberton</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">at Baker’s Creek, half way, on 16th, & after a pitched battle drove him within his lines around the doomed city. There followed the [illegible] & the bloody assaults by the enemy, with the heroic defence by the garrison, who yielded on the 4th of July. -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Johnson collected an army of about 30,000 men around Canton, but this force, the only protection for Miss. in case Genl. Pemberton’s army fell, it was wisely deemed prudent not to risk against Grant </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 56]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">who had strongly fortified himself among the hills around Vicksburg. After the fall of Vicksburg Grant marched on Jackson for the second time, & Genl. Johnson placed his [illegible] position to hold the city, but the telegram of the 17th tells us that he was compelled to evacuate the position on the 16th. - Where he now is, is not known, certainly. - So back to my Regt. next week, my wound having sufficiently improved [illegible words]. - Genl. Gilmore, the enemy’s Genl. Comd. the troops in the “[illegible] of the South”,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 57]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">succession to Hunter, is now in front of Charleston with a force of some 10 to 15000 troops, assisted by Adml. Dahlpren’s fleet of Iron & wooden vessels. The attack upon the city is this time by way of [illegible] Isld. last year, under Genl., it was by way of James Isld. The object of the enemy now, is to carry Morris Isld. with a view to erecting beaching batteries against the South West face (the [illegible] side) of Fort Sumter, that work, being the key to the possession of the Harbour. Last year <del>Branson’s</del> (?) object was to gain James Isld. east of the James Isld. Co. so as to command the </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 58]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">city from the bluffs opposite to the Battery. The victory on the 16th of June, <del>so disbanded</del> at Secessionville so crippled the enemy, & convinced [illegible] of the strength of our fortifications on James Isld. that he gave-up the undertaking, evacuating the Isld., early in July, & sending a portion of his troops, under Stevens, to reinforce the army of the Potomac, then retreating from Richmond. So far, though the enemy took our Batteries on the South end of Morris Isld & [illegible] possession of that portion of the Isld. he has been severely repulsed in every at-</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 59]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">tempt to take the northern portion. - His [illegible words] boats have been incessantly bombarding Battery wagons (a redoubt across the Isld. about one mile & a half from Comming’s Pt.). Since the 10th [illegible] while his troops have made several gallant assaults upon it, the last (that we have heard of.) having been made on Saturday night last, the 18th. I had a conversation with Genl. Beauregard on last Thursday. - His object is, to erect more heavy batteries on Sullivan’s & James Islds. to concentrate on the Northern portion of the disputed Island a fire so severe </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 60]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">as to render its occupation by the enemy impractical. The diagram will illustrate; the bench marks indicating the points at which it is proposed to build additional batteries. Our people are greatly alarmed at the possession of a portion of Morris Isld. by the enemy; much more so than they were last year, when he held a portion of an Isld. much nearer the city, & more directly commanding it. - The reason of this is to be found in two considerations: 1st, the fall of Vicksburg has impressed the people with the ability of the enemy to </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 61]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[See scan of diary for drawing]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 62]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Written on back of drawing] Oxford - Nov 10th/63. Genl. Beauregard’s [illegible] failed to [illegible] the <del>enem</del> northern end of Morris Isld. He was forced to abandon the entire Isld. early in Sept. and the possessing enemy is now [illegible] the rivers of Sumter from Batteries Gregg & Wagner, which works him been repaired under Genl. B’s concentrated fire. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">attack the shores so as to [illegible] its occupation by </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 63]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">approach the strongest positions by means of regular parallels, & as Morris Isld. affords excellent facilities for this means of attack, our people look to the fall of Ft. Wayne as a matter of time only. - 2d The Comdg. Genl. of the enemy is a skillful officer, who last year took Ft. Pulaski by erecting batteries on Gibes Isld. & breaching its weak side obliged its surrender. This was accomplished at an incredible distance, & his long range guns are feared against Sumter. But I am hopeful & do not believe he will succeed. - [illegible]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 64]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">to mention in the right place that the enemy’s force on James Isld. which had been landed, no doubt, to divide our attention, was [illegible] by Genl. Hagood on <del>Friday</del> Thursday morning last, & evacuated the Isld. on Saturday, no doubt to reinforce the command on Morris Isld. for the attack on Wagner, which I stated was made Saturday night. - So much for the military.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">My precious wife is quite unwell, & is now in bed. - I expect to leave next Tuesday week for Miss. if my wife is well enough. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 65]<br /><del>Pinopolis</del>- </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Monday night - Eutawville</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">July 27 1863. - <br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">My Lottie has just gone to rest; our little ones are quiet & I write this note as my last in this book, 8 P.M.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">On tomorrow morning I start for the west - once more I am about to say good bye to my angels, & the gracious mercy of God in the past makes my heart bold. - How often I have gone! And have never once failed to return! “I’ll praise him for all that’s past; & trust him for all that’s to come.” - I leave my precious wife greatly enfeebled, & now </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 66]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">too weak to sit up, but I believe that God will bless her. - Oh! How earnestly I shall pray for her! Hear our prayers, O! Lord, & grant us peace, and bring us, once more, under our own vine & fig tree, with none to molest us, or make us afraid.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Ellison Capers</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Tuesday Nov. 10 1863<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Though it has pleased God to take our little daughter Susan McGill from us, since I made the above note, yet</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 67]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">again has He been pleased to return me to my family after the dangers of battle. I am now recovering from a severe wound received at Chickamauga & am with Lottie & Frank, at my sister’s, at Oxford, Ga. - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Praised be the loving kindness of God!<br /><br /></span>Capers<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 68]<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">[Blank page]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 69]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Act with [illegible]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Tel. Dispatch - Jany. 27t</span> <span style="font-weight:400;"> .80 cts<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Papers</span> <span style="font-weight:400;"> .10<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Blacking</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">1.00<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Envelopes & Hymn Book</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">2.00<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Express for Bundle</span> <span style="font-weight:400;"> .50</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 70]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Illegible words]</span></p>
<ol><li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Capers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight:400;"> Capers</span></li>
</ol><p><span style="font-weight:400;">C H Stevens</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">[Page 71]<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">[Back cover]</span></p>
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Diary of Ellison Capers, July 1862 - November 1863
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United States--Military history
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Diary of Ellison Capers, kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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A1961.1
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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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Capers, Ellison 1837-1908
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United States--Military history
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Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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[Page 1] <br />Secessionville, Monday <br />April 13th, 1863 <br /><br />My precious wife <br /><br />[Illegible] came into the office before I got up this morning (I slept late) and brought me your letters of the 8th, 9th, and 10th, with the Mercury. The editorial somewhat anticipates what I had intended to write you. What in the name of sense our enemy means is beyond my ken. His counsels are truly the counsels of children, and his ships of war, & Battalions of men, seem to move about without knowing what to do or where to go to. I got into a small boat on yesterday afternoon, and rowed over to Morris Island. I got in the magnificent sand hills just in time to witness six Turrets, and the Iron Sides, cross the Bar, at about 3 P.M. I found Col. Graham in the Hills, with the splendid Marine Glass of the Keokuk marked “U.S.N. No. 72”. With this fine glass I could see the fine Turrets and the Iron Sides plainly. Their crews were promenading the decks, & <br /><br />[Page 2] <br />the beautiful sloop of war, Powhattan, with most of the Blockaders, collected about them, to talk over the Bombardment, no doubt, though, I take it, it was by no means a subject gratifying conversation; for in full view of them and the Victory crowned hills, lay the sunken Keokuk and her stranded [illegible]! It was a grand sight, to stand upon these splendid hills towering up, & now mounting Columbiads and Whitworth Guns, & witness the baffled fleet of our boastful enemy! To watch their retreat through the glass of the most formidable of their number, & to walk over the deck of the wrecked torpedo and obstruction destroyer, gave me the highest pleasure. The guns in these hills on the southern end of Morris Island are intended to prevent a passage of the enemy from Folly to Morris Isld. One of these grand hills, on the summit of which, an 8 inch Columbiad is mounted, in sunken battery, has been encircled by our noble troops with a wreath of myrtle, which <br /><br />[Page 3] <br />with the Palmetto, is the native growth of the Isld. Holmes, who went with me, & I, walked up the beach to the stranded “Devil,” & to the beautiful and efficient work. Ft. Wagner, (named in honor of our Wagner) which runs across the narrow neck of the Isld. near where the “Star of the West” Battery was. This “Devil” is simply a large raft, built of heavy 15 inch timbers, with heavy iron hooks & bars projecting from the bottom, which were meant to hook up our torpedoes, & break up submarine obstructions. They have, however, all been sent to Cameron’s foundry to be run into ten inch shot, for the guns of glorious Moultrie, & Sumter, & our strong batteries. The enemy were evidently worsted. I told you the 15th shot of the Iron Clads could knock down Sumter, & <span style="text-decoration:underline;">so they can</span>, if the Turrets can <span style="text-decoration:underline;">remain</span> long enough under the fire of our Batteries, to do it! The result of the 7th looks very much as if they <span style="text-decoration:underline;">cannot</span>. The Keokuk was “stove in”, as the sailors say, in her bow, & several <br /><br />[Page 4] <br />of our steel bolts pierced her. I think the fact of the Iron Clads going out, & all of the turrets, but one, going South, looks very much like they were in for the repair of damages. I send you the Editorial of the Mercury. While I don’t trust the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">discretion</span> & <span style="text-decoration:underline;">judgement</span> of the Mercury, nor always approve its politics, I admire its <span style="text-decoration:underline;">tone</span> on all questions of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">sentiment</span>. Its Editor is a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">blooded</span> man, and does not smell of mud. You know I believe in <span style="text-decoration:underline;">blood</span>. Only seven vessels in Stono Harbor today, & but one encampment to be seen on [illegible] Isld. If the enemy’s force is not all, or nearly all, on Folly Isld. then he has not troops enough in [illegible words] to meet, in our front, to meet the 24th, & Restin’s Battery. I have just read over what I have written, & the thought struck me, [illegible words]. It is written to you & Frank & Sue, & on no account is it public. I trust that I may be spared the vulgar paragraphs of the cousins. Thank you, Lottie, my <br /><br />[Page 5] <br />dear wife, for your letters & for the wild violet. I will keep these little mementos of your love, & you know how I will cherish them. I hope if Frank gets the measles, he will get through safely. How much longer are you going to nurse Sue? Do you give her much nourishment from a single breast? If not, I think you might wean her. Bless my daughter! I hope she may be like her angel sister. Thank you for your part Frank took in my letters. Tell him his Papa loves him with all of his heart, & expects him to be a noble man, like his Uncle [illegible] & Oddy, & then, if it be providential that his Papa should pass away, he will be the support & protection of his Mother and Sister. I will send the bundle spoken of in a previous letter as soon as I get a piece of good wrapping paper. <br /><br />You wonder how long it will be before it will be determined about our dear old city. I can’t tell, my darling. The retreat of the iron clads defers matters, & we must continue to watch & wait, & be ready. Charleston will never fall into Yankee hands. I will bid <br /><br />[Page 6] <br />you good bye now, my dear wife, & wish you God’s blessings. Your affectionate husband. Ellison <br /><br />P.S. Marion King is here at Ft. Lamar. He looks very well. E.C. <br /><br />By way of showing you how an official paper gets up to Genl. Beauregard, I sent you one, which started from Co. “F” 8th Geo. Batt. here under my command. The Batt. is a support to Ft. Lamar, which Brown commands, & makes its reports to me through mine, & so on up the “ascending channel of communication”, as the Red Tapes call it. Holmes, who says good things frequently, said of a communication which had been returned by one of the intermediate commanders, because it was not properly endorsed, that it “got aground in the ascending Channel, the author not knowing how to navigate said Channel”. You see the paper first comes from Hd. Qrs. Ft. Lamar, of which 8th Geo. is the support. Then Hd. Qrs. Secessionville, of which post, Ft. Lamar and 8th Geo. constitute a part, then Hd. Qrs. [illegible words] to which Secessionville is attached, and so on up. E.C.
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, April 13, 1863
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Capers talks about a trip out to Morris Island where he was able to spy on Yankee ships. He describes the ships and the crews as well as the sunken vessel, Keokuk. He also describes a Columbiad cannon on the island that their troops have laid of wreath of myrtle on and a raft known as the "Devil". He then goes on to discuss the reportage of the Daily Mercury and how he admires its tone. Capers ends the letter by telling Lottie how he treasures her letters and asking after their new daughter, Sue, and their son, Frank.
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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1961.1, Box 3, Folder 9
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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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Capers, Ellison 1837-1908
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United States--Military history
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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A1961.1
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[Page 1] <br />In the Trenches East of Atlanta <br />Saturday 13th 1864 <br /><br />My Lottie <br /><br />Every thing quiet this morning, except the constant contest between the skirmishes. Nothing yet heard from Wheeler’s expedition to the enemy’s rear - much expected from it. I rode over to see Joe last night. He was quite well - had received his box, & said the tomatoes had spoiled much of the contents. It was a mistake that Joe’s horse was shot. He was in no wise injured. He is pleased with Uncle Joe’s engagement. <br /><br />My cold is better today. Otherwise, my dear darling, I am well. I dreamt of you last night. My recent visit to you, my precious wife, seems like a dream to me, with all of the trials & losses. And oh! what a source of Thanksgiving to God it is! I feel what I say when I exclaim, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Blessed</span> be God. There are, my darling wife, certain features of our lives, particular instances, which come up to me with so much of tenderness that I cherish their recollection with all my heart. Such, my lamb, is my recollection of our first association - of our meeting at Cherry Grove in Dec. 1858 - of our life at Winnsboro - the birth of Kate, & a thousand precious circumstances which are stamped upon my heart; never to be effaced while reason & love are left to me. It was just such a circumstance, my Lottie, when I entered your room, unexpectedly, on Sunday morning <br /><br />[Page 2] <br />last, and found you sitting by our little daughter, intently watching her being dressed. You looked so sweetly in your pure white dress, & there was so much of loving earnestness in your face! May God grant me, my own dear Lottie, many an hour, & many a year of joyful association with our dear little May. <br /><br />Our mail has just been delivered. No letter yet. I would read one from you with the avidity of my whole soul. I know that you have written to me. <br /><br />Good bye, my angel wife. Kiss my little boy & our little girl. Love to the family. <br /><br />Your own <br />Ellie
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, August 13, 1864
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Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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Capers writes that they are waiting on news from Wheeler's expedition to the rear of the enemy troops. He says that he visited a man named Joe and that he is well. Capers also writes that he is well and tells Lottie that he had a dream about her. He recalls important events in their life together and adds a new one of her watching their daughter getting dressed while he was home on leave.
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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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Capers, Ellison 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1861-1865
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United States--Military history
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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A1961.1
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[Page 1] <br />In the Trenches - Atlanta Ga. <br />Sunday Aug. 14th 1864 <br /><br />My very dear wife <br /><br />This day, a week ago, I was with you, and my dear little boy rode down to the cars to see me off. My own Lottie, how I miss you! This is the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. The collect for today is <span style="text-decoration:underline;">my</span> favorite collect, & I have so marked it in my prayer book. I am sure that you once expressed to me a preference for the collect for the Fourth Sunday after Easter. Did you not, my Lottie? It contains the true philosophy of the Christian: devotion to the command and will of God, & a heart “fixed where <span style="text-decoration:underline;">true joys</span> are to be found, through <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Jesus Christ</span>, our Lord. My collect is the expression of that sincere humility and unworthiness before God, which I <span style="text-decoration:underline;">feel</span> most keenly, & therefore, the collect strikes me particularly. It expresses, too, the supreme goodness & loving kindness of God so touchingly: “Who art always <span style="text-decoration:underline;">more ready</span> to hear than we to pray, and not want to give <span style="text-decoration:underline;">more</span> than we either desire or deserve”! But I think there is more true Christian philosophy in your favorite collect than in mine. The great principal of subordinating our “unruly <span style="text-decoration:underline;">wills</span> and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">affections</span>” to the commands of God, is plainly taught, & the desire expressed, that amongst all of life’s <br /><br />[Page 2] <br />trials our hearts should depend, fervently, upon God. <br /><br />These two collects, the “General Confession”, the “General Thanksgiving” & the prayer of the service “for all conditions of men,” with the “Collect for Grace,” in the morning service, are my favorites in the beautiful ritual of our church. I am most impressed with them, because they are so true to the heart of human nature. <br /><br />Oh! for the sweet time, when you & I will kneel, side by side, & reflect these prayers to Him who loves us, and takes care of us! I long for it. Lord Jesus, O grant us this inexpressibly precious boon. <br /><br />I am quite well except my cold. This enemy, last night, shelled the city most vigorously, destroying one house, by setting it on fire. This morning, every thing is comparatively quiet. A shell has just passed over my line, on its way to the city. The people are living in cellars & bomb proofs. I will write to the Mercury to send you paper, & the Carolina in Aiken. Or darling, you do it, as I am so busy here. Write to Billy to have your Carolinian changed & to Editor Mercury to change your Mercury. The Appeal is hardly worth having. It is now so small. I will add a line after the mail comes, darling. <br /><br />Our mail has come, but no letter yet. <br /><br />Your <br />Ellie
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, August 14, 1864
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United States--Military history
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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Capers discusses his favorite collects or short prayers with Lottie and compares them with her favorites. He says that he cannot wait until they can pray together again. He still has a cold but is otherwise well and the shelling of Atlanta continues.
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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1864-08-14
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A1961.1, Box 3, Folder 23
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Ellison Capers Collection
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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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Capers, Ellison 1837-1908
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1861-1865
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Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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[Page 1] <br />In the Trenches Atlanta <br />Tuesday 23rd Aug. 1964 <br /><br />My Dear Wife <br /><br />We received today a glorious mail! Your letters of the 8th, 9th, 15th, & 17th, with one from Mr. Stevens, all came to me! I have read & rejoiced! I also got [illegible] letter to you. What a loss your list includes! Wear Kate’s dresses, the most severe. <br /><br />I think, my darling, that you do well to decline to take the wine unless you <span style="text-decoration:underline;">need</span> it. I started [illegible] off yesterday with a long letter to you and $150. I write today a short note, merely to acknowledge your dear letters up to the 17th. I have written you & mailed the letters here, every day since my return, & at Macon, dropped a note in the office there on my way here. <br /><br />I am quite well, my dear wife, & have in the past week regained all that I have lost. <br /><br />[Page 2] <br />Kiss my dear boy for me & our little May. N.W. Abney is Dr. N.W. Abney of Edgefield Dist. S.C. the late asst. Surgeon of our Regt. I write to Stevens today & will send him his P.O. <br /><br />I close this, my darling, in rush for the mail. I hope it may be more regular hereafter. <br /><br />God Bless you - Your <br />Ellie <br /><br />Love to the family. You may have an opportunity from [illegible], or Aiken, to send the money to [illegible], and save the Express expense. Ellie
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, August 23, 1864
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Capers writes how thrilled he is to receive four letters from Lottie and mentions a loss that the family has suffered. The rest of the letter is business regarding the mailing of money, when his next letters will be posted and information about a surgeon named Abney.
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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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Capers, Ellison 1837-1908
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Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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[Page 1] <br />In the Trenches, Atlanta Ga. <br />Wednesday Evening <br />August 24th 1864 <br /><br />My precious wife <br /><br />Ben reached Atlanta last night and was pressed into service at a fire in the city during the night, and did not reach me here until just now. I read all of your dear letter of Sunday, and Monday last, with great pleasure. But I am truly surprised and grieved to learn that up to Sunday the 21st you had received but <span style="text-decoration:underline;">three letters</span> from me, when I have written, my angel, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">every day</span>. I hope [illegible] reached you this morning. I trust, my darling, that you may eventually get all of my letters. I have received now all of yours up to the 17th, having got five by our mail yesterday. I will see Hagood about the Appeal. He told me that he had ordered it sent you at Aiken. It is now, my darling, a trifling little sheet, about the size of a half sheet of cap paper, & printed only <br /><br />[Page 2] <br />on one side. I won’t be able to pay Mr. Valentine before I draw my August pay in Sept. Ben, I think, looks thinner than when he left us. I can scarcely read Sister [illegible] letter you sent me. She does write a horrid hand. I rode down last night to the cook wagons and took supper with Bowie. On my way back I stopped at Joe’s, & found him off, at Griffin, on a thirty-six hour leave! That is his fourth leave of absence since we left Winter Qurs. Some people are born lucky. He is to return tonight. I have not seen or hear of Richie yet, & my duties keep me too closely confined to the [illegible] to hunt up or visit friends. My darling, I know you will almost cry when I tell you that I have lost my noble little Hardtimes. He was stolen from where I kept my horses night before last, & so far all search has proven unavailing. Ben could not get my bag of tinware & (cost me at least $50) in Augusta. He thinks <br /><br />[Page 3 – written on top of page 1] <br />Mr. Rhodes negro must have stolen it. So do I. What is the matter with Frank’s toe? You speak of it being almost well, or better. I do devoutly trust, my own dear Lottie, that our little girl will not break your rest at night. You need it, my cherished wife, and I think of you every time I awake at night, & wonder if you are sweetly sleeping, or disturbed by your little girl! God grant you, my sweet angel, rest at night & comfort in day time. The words of tenderness you send me in your letters by Ben come to my heart like doves to their windows. They find shelter & nourishment here Lottie! You know that I prize them! It happens just now that our sky to the East is very dark & cloudy, & our attention is just called to see a beautiful Rainbow spanning the cloudy <br /><br />[Page 4 – written on top of page 2] <br />regions. The contrast is lovely, & most beautiful! I could but think of your dear words of love, coming to me amid scenes of strife and suffering, and like the bow in the clouds they form beauteous bow of promise & of joy in my heart, my own darling wife. <br /><br />Thursday, Aug. 25th - Quite well today Lottie. No letter today, our mails are very irregular. The mail just now brought me a letter written at Macon on the 17th, eight days ago! And the same mail, a letter from Charleston on the 23rd, only two days ago! Eventually you will get my letters, I suppose. I have never before felt so restless & impatient of our separation! I am too homesick! I do so long to see you & our precious little ones! May God grant us soon a happy reunion. Kiss Frank & May for me. Good bye now, my dear Lottie. <br /><br />Your Ellie
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, August 24 and 25, 1864
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United States--Military history
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Capers writes that Ben made it to Atlanta the night before but was tasked with helping put out a fire. He says how upset he is that Lottie has only received three of his letters and hopes that she will eventually receive all of them. He writes about some people in camp including Joe who is on leave for the fourth time and he also mentions that Hardtimes, his horse, is missing. He closes by asking after the children and hopes that Lottie is getting the rest she deserves. In his short note on the 25th, Capers talks about old letters finally arriving and how homesick he is.
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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1864-08-24
1864-08-25
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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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Capers, Ellison 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1861-1865
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Materials in The Citadel Archives & Museum Digital Collections are intended for educational and research use. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. For more information contact The Citadel Archives & Museum, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, 29409.
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United States--Military history
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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A1961.1
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[Page 1] <br />Friday - August 26th/64 <br /><br />My dear Lottie <br /><br />This is an interesting morning to us, a morning of infinite relief to the citizens of Atlanta. The enemy ceased his artillery fire on the city yesterday afternoon, & the silence of his heavy guns during the evening & all night, was evidence to us that he was retiring. This morning at day dawn our scouts went into his empty works in our front (on the right) & along our line, as far as the center of our army. He has gone from half our army front & I write amid a calm stillness which reminds me of peaceful hours in the past. <br /><br />[Page 2] <br />Our men are rejoiced but seem subdued by the stillness prevailing & the perfect freedom, temporarily existing, in our front from all danger. I went over the enemy’s works, in our front, this morning, & admired the engineering skill displayed & the great amount of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">work done</span>. The Yankees are a great <span style="text-decoration:underline;">working people</span>. Their works are all modeled after ours. Joe Johnston taught them how to build breast works & they imitate us exactly, adding, however, five times our labor to their imitation. As I walked back <br /><br />[Page 3] <br />through the beautiful valley, all was quiet & still where only a few hours before hostile guns were carrying death to noble hearts. <br /><br />Sunday Aug 28th <br /><br />My darling Lottie <br /><br />I deferred writing you further, until this movement of the enemy became more palpable. They are today mostly across the river, & our army is quiet. It looks very like a retreat, but the tardiness & deliberation of the move makes it a matter of doubt to me. He has certainly quitted the siege of Atlanta. I am going in to <br /><br />[Page 4] <br />the city directly, to attend service at the Episcopal church. What a beautiful lesson the Epistle for today (14th Sunday after Trinity) is. How plainly the code of the Christian is there laid down. And the collect is very like your favorite. We are in Bivouac, & have been since Friday morning, two miles west of Atlanta, enjoying a rest, & a delightful immunity from shot and shell. Our mail is just now come. I hope a letter has come for me. News by Ben is my last news. No letter in the mail for me. Good bye my darling. <br /><br />Your Ellie
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, August 26 and 28, 1864
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United States--Military history
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Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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Capers writes that the Yankees have ceased shelling Atlanta and there is now a stillness that has fallen over the city. The men are happy but subdued. He talks about the work that the Yankees have done and marvels at their engineering skill but states that it is in imitation of their own work. In his letter from the 28th, Capers writes that the enemy appear to be in retreat but he is not convinced. He then closes by saying he is going to church service and gives Lottie their location.
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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
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1864-08-26
1864-08-28
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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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Capers, Ellison 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1861-1865
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United States--Military history
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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A1961.1
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Citadel Class of 1857
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[Page 1]
At Joe’s Quarters
Friday Evening Aug. 26/64
My darling Lottie
I stopped in here to drop you only a line. The enemy quitted his works in our front this morning & moved towards his right. Many think he is retreating. I can’t yet form an opinion. Our Division moved from the extreme right to a point in reserve, about opposite our right center. I rode into town to get some rice .75 cents a pound, & called here. Joe has ridden off, but is quite well. I am quite well, my darling wife, & long to see you. I send you two pictures I tore out of a Yankee Harper’s Magazine for July. I think my darling would look so sweet in one of these dresses! I just remembered that the pictures are in my Portfolio; not now with me. I must go on back now, my darling angel. The
[Page 2]
sun is nearly down.
Kiss my little ones & may God keep & bless you.
Your devoted
Ellie
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, August 26, 1864 (Night)
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United States--Military history
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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Capers writes a short letter to Lottie in which he again states that he doesn't believe that the enemy is in retreat. His division was moved and he went into town to buy rice and to mail this letter. He tells her that he will send her two pictures from the Yankee magazine, Harper's, of dresses.
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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1864-08-26
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English
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https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/500
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A1961.1, Box 3, Folder 27
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Ellison Capers Collection
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1860-1869
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Citadel Class of 1857
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Capers, Ellison Collection, 1861-1865
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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was in The Citadel's Class of 1857. After graduation he taught at The Citadel before joining the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, Capers had been appointed Brigadier General. After the war, Capers entered the ministry. In 1887 he was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina. The Ellison Capers Collection at The Citadel Archives includes letters and diaries dated between 1861 and 1865. This digital collection includes letters written by Capers to his wife Lottie during the war and a diary he kept from July of 1862 through November of 1863.
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Capers, Ellison 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1861-1865
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English
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https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/collections/show/4
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United States--Military history
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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A1961.1
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Citadel Class of 1857
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[Page 1]<br />At Church Bridge John’s Island<br />Thursday Dec 19<br /><br />My precious wife - Your letter of last Saturday I got last night. By the time you get this you will have heard all sorts of tales about the retreat of the Rifle Regiment &c, so I give you a perfectly correct statement. Gadsen was in the city and I was at John’s Island Ferry, on the main, with the Carolina Light Infantry, having come up from the city that day, Tuesday. Well in the middle of the night, while I was asleep in Pickney’s tent a messenger came over from the other side of the river, sent by Branch, who, informed me that three of the enemy’s gunboats & one large transport, had<br /><br />[Page 2]<br />sailed into Edisto, & that the enemy's troops had landed at Rockville & the Regiment was in retreat. Imagine my feelings! After dispatching to Ripley (Gen. Ripley), I went across the Ferry, with the messenger & hurried on to meet the regiment. I crossed over this bridge & on to Wadmaloo, found the regiment about 5 miles from Rockville. And the story of the messenger was substantially true. The gunboats fired shot & shell at the old fort at the mouth of the river, & Branch ordered the regiment to make a retreat to this point, which is a strong one, because he was afraid of being cut off on the Island. It was able to retreat ultimately after we saw the enemy intended to<br /><br />[Page 3]<br />land in force, but to run as Branch did, leaving many of the mens knap-sacks, blankets, one third of our tents, and nearly all the commissary stores, was shameful. It is unfortunate for Gadsen & I, as well as the regiment, that neither of us were there. The enemy land in the day time & take to their boats at night. They captured all that Branch left. I shall soon be out of this milk & water affair & under the command of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">a man</span>. I don't’ believe Branch a coward, but he is a good hearted, clever, fellow, who has no determination, no military sense or head. Thank you darling, for your letter. You & Frank and our dear Angel Kate, are ever present with me. No bundle yet. I did not lose a thing, But for Peter, Gadsen & I would have lost everything. Your picture and prayer book I always carry on my person. Don’t send me anything more till you hear from me.<br />Ellison
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, December 19, 1861
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United States--History, Military
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America--History, Military
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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1861-12-19
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Materials in The Citadel Archives & Museum Digital Collections are intended for educational and research use. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. For more information contact The Citadel Archives & Museum, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, 29409.
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English
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https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/19
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Capers writes to his wife Lottie from Johns Island, South Carolina. He describes the retreat of the Rifle Regiment from two days before. He had been with the Carolina Light Infantry on Johns Island Ferry, and in the middle of the night was awakened to hear that the enemy's troops had landed in Rockville. Colonel Branch ordered a retreat, and the enemy captured the supplies they had left behind. Capers writes that the retreat was a mistake, and is thankful that he keeps Lottie's picture and prayer book on his person, so they were not lost.
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A1961.1, Box 1, Folder 49
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Ellison Capers Collection
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1860-1869
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Citadel Class of 1857