2
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OFFICIAL REGISTER
OF TI-IE
FFICERS AND CADETS
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CHARLESTON:
J. B. NIXON, PRINTER, 48
1852<>
BROAD STREET\
�REMARKS.
l\rI1LITARY ScHOOLs vvere established, and. are supported
by the State of South-Carolina; one at Charleston and one at Col_
un1bia; the latter auxiliary to the forn1er T'WO Arsenals, containing
the arn1s and 1n unitions of vvar of the Staie, are located, one in Char
leston and the other in Columbia, vvhich ,vero for1ncrly guarded by�
t,vo co1npanies of enlisted soldiers, at an annual expense of $24,000
In 1842, this appropriation v/as transferred, by an Act of the
General Assembly, to the support of tvvo schools, which ,vere or�
ganized upon the basis of the U. S. l\1i1itary Academy at Wes+
Point, in the beginning of 1843, by a pern1anent Board of Visitors
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appointed by the Governor, the Cadets at ,vhieh perforn1 all the
duties of a guard for the Arsenals.
The Cadets adrnitted consist of tvvo classes, Benejicary and Pay
Cadets. The State supplies to the Beneficiary Cadet all his ex..,
penses. The Pay Cadet pays $200 pet year for every charge, in
cluding Clothing The Beneficiaty Cadets are selected fro1n those
not able to bear their own expenses. Applications for ad1nission
ure n1adc to the Chairman of the Board of Visitors prior to the An_
nnal JVIceting of the Board, \vhich takes places on Friday next after
the fourth l\,Ionday in Noven1ber, by ,vhom appointments are made
at that tilne, for both classes of Cadets; respect being had to a due
.apportionment a111011g the several Judicial Districts of the Stateo
T\iVO
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BOARD OF VISITORS.
f-Iis Excellency J. I-I. MEANS, Governor of So. Ca.,( ex-officio.)
Gen. JAI\IES J oNEs,(Acldress)Graniteville, S. C.
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Gen. D. }.., J.\_ \lISON,
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Gen. J. \V CANTEY, Adj't and Ins. Gen.(ex-qtlLcio)Ca1ndcn C. H
OFFICERS AND PROFESSORS.
CITADEL ACADE:OiY, CHARLES'I,ON
tlnjor R. W CoLcocK, Supedntendent and Professor Df 1\1:echanics
and Engineering.
Capt. A. H. BRISBANE, Profes::;or of Belles Lettres.
First Lieut. J A. LELAND, Professor of l\fathen1atics and Astro
non1y
_ Dr. Wivr. I--Iun1E, Professor of Experin1ental Science.
F. GAUTHIER, Professor of French and Dravving
Dr. H. BOYLSTON, Surgeon.
Ivir. J. L. GREGORIE, Bursar.
ARSENAL ACADE:OIY, COLUi\IBIA.
Capt. J. l\IATTHEvvs, Superintendent, &c.
First Lieut. P F STEVENS, Professor 1'Iathematics.
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�EXPLL-lNATION OF CONDUCT ROLL.
All offences against Orders or Regulation::; are recorded.
1-, hese offences nre dividcd into seyen grades; ench of \Vhich co1n.,
prises offences of nea.1·ly the sa1ne degree of cri111inality
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and the sum thus obtained is that found in the eolurnn of 'den1erit·
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CADETS A 1., CITADEL ACADEMY.
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i51 J. Rieh,
I 52 J. \Va.rdla,v,
53 A. l\I. Barry,
j , 54 A.. Aiken,
55l T. H. Cooke,
56f G. W.. Seabrook,
57ll\f. Jenkins,
58 J J. ·Brovvn,
59 W Po,vell,
60 B. A. lvI unnerlyn,
J. Davant,
61
62 �. H. Bass,
63 I-I. Williams,
64, A. I-I. Dupre,
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74 F. f> almer,
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76 J. T. Gibbs,
77 J. M. Pelot,
78 J. B. Colding,
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92 Il W. S. Lance,
93 J Kersha�t,
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95 F. H. Elinore,
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MIJ_j11'ARY ACADE1IIES.
TEXT BOOKS.
STUDIES.
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Engineering and Science of War, Mahan and Lectures,
Intellectual & Mor. Philosophy, Abercrombie,
Wayland's Ele1nents,
Political Econo1ny,
.Story,
1 >, j National and Con. Law,
f,ovvne,
u Chemistry,
)ana, � and Lectures.
� 8 , lVIinera1ogy,
I.Jyell,
8 � Geology,
Artillery and Infantry �factics, U. S. Art. Tactics and Scott,
Topographical and
East1nan,
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Dra,ving, Crayon, and Li· .ea1"o
Geometry and Trigonon1etry,
Descriptive Geo1netry,
Surveying,
Analytical Geon1etry,
Universal History
French,
Drawing, Landscape,
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mere's Astron; and Bird's
e1nents,
Blair, ·
I F'owne, and Lectures,
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Davies, Legendere,
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Davies,
Davies,
Tytler,
Historie de Charles XIL
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Davies Bourdon,
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Sim1ns, So. Ca.
Collots French Reader.
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24 W. F. Roach,
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25 S. Hirk.
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26 \V l\icKelvey,
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40 J. A. Evans,
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4 A. Burt,
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8 J. Chandler,
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13 -- Hill,
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15 J. Bell,
16 W. B. Gilbert,
17 J. M. Phinney,
18 T. Watt,
19 If. C. Dozier,
20 II� S. Thompson,
21 W. Thompson,
22 J. Bess�:tnt,
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25 S. Walker,
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33 B. F. Whitehead,
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Charloston, !
4 j,Jn,). L. Branch,
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15 F. l•'. \>lurley,
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TRANSCRIPT – A. LEE CHANDLER
Interviewee: A. Lee Chandler
Interviewer: Jack Bass
Interview Date: October 26, 2008
Location: Rare Books Room, Daniel Library, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina
Length: 1 CD, 01:28:44
Jack Bass: Let me begin by asking you how you decided to attend The Citadel to
begin with.
A. Lee Chandler: It was a decision made not too long before I came. And I had
thought of some other colleges that I had hoped to go to but it--up in the east. One of the
Ivy League schools, but it just didn’t work out. I didn’t have the funding or a lot of other
things and so right towards the end they said where will we send him? And well the
consensus was The Citadel and so I came here that way.
JB: And where, tell me where grew up. Where did you grow up?
AC: I grew up in a--I was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina. I lived there till I
was nine and then we moved to Greenville. My family did. And my mother passed away
a year after we were in Greenville, and she had six children. So that’s where I grew up, in
that way.
JB: And when you got to The Citadel, what was your first reaction your first week
or two at The Citadel?
AC: Well I had been having discussions with some Citadel grads. Lawrence
Nickelson in Greenville, and a few others, and they pretty well forewarned me, in a sense
of the word, you know, what it was. I had not been in any form of a disciplinary location,
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but I was made very aware of what was ahead if you chose The Citadel. That’s the real
answer to it. I can remember those discussions very vividly.
JB: And then what was your major at The Citadel?
AC: Political science.
JB: So tell me about the process of going on active duty.
AC: On active duty?
JB: You enrolled in what year?
AC: Well I enrolled in ’39, but at the end of the first semester. It might be sort of
hard to believe because of the low cost at that time, but we had financial problems.
Although I had made excellent grades, four As and two Bs, I mean, I left and went to
Washington, where my brother was secretary to a congressman. And I stayed up there.
But during the summer of, that would be the summer of ’40, the opportunity came for me
to be able to, you know, make it financially. And so I really ended up in the class of ’40,
beginning class, which would make me in the class of ’44.
JB: Right.
AC: For graduation purposes and I never left after coming back. I forget the rest
of your question.
JB: Well I think that sort of covered it.
AC: But I knew people, more than most cadets did, who were in both classes. I
had close friends in the class of ’43. But when I left and came back I didn’t have the
opportunity--during the summers I would work and save money to help this person who
was helping me--and so I couldn’t attend enough summer school to pick up and stay in
the class of ’43. So I was happy to be in the class of ’44. And I made you know most of
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my friends then.
JB: And so you were in that group where the whole class went in?
AC: That is correct.
JB: Except for the premed students I believe.
AC: In the spring of 1943 we received the word from Washington so to speak that
all ROTC juniors would be activated in May of ‘43 and would not have a senior year.
JB: And so upon activation tell me what happened.
AC: What happened is that we all had to be, I never thought I’d forget these kind
of words, but it would be” matriculated” if you were in college. We had to be whatever
the military word for it, at Fort Jackson. We were enlisted, I guess you’d say, and then
sent back here for a few weeks before we then received orders. And in my case the order
was to, and all or most of us, and I was in the infantry section in artillery. At that time
that’s all that had was those two; they have more now. But the infantry, the youngsters in
the class of ’44, were sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama where we went through almost a
regular basic training that an enlistee who had never been to college would go through.
And at the end of that seventeen weeks then we were sent back to The Citadel because at
that time the way to get a degree, I mean to get a commission, was to--through the officer
candidate school program, OCS, and there weren’t sufficient openings in OCS when we
finished the seventeen weeks at Fort McClellan. We were sent back, and this is pretty
universal over the country, we were sent back to The Citadel under the auspices of what
I’m sure you’re familiar with, the ASTP, Army Specialized Training Program, which was
something that the Army had worked out. Looking towards getting some more educated
people in to the war if the war continued. So we were under the auspices of that program
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and then in December--.
JB: Were you taking classes?
AC: Oh yes, you went to classes.
JB: I mean did you pick choose them or did the Army tell you which classes to
take?
AC: We pretty well started taking what we had been taking. I mean I think there
were enough faculty to do that. But we didn’t do that program under the auspices of the
ASTP for more than a couple of months and then openings occurred in the officer
candidate schools to take us in and right after Christmas we received our orders,
Christmas of ’43, we received our orders to report to the infantry group to Fort Benning,
Georgia where the officer candidate school was, OCS, and we began there.
JB: Let me go back a minute. Tell me your memory of hearing, first hearing about
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
AC: It was--I mean I had had enough education by then to, you know, to
appreciate the enormity of what was happening and I got--well, I think it would just be
called an ordinary depression to learn how much we were admitting had been destroyed
in the way of big ships and so forth at Pearl Harbor. And that was the way it affected me
and I think it affected a whole lot of other people. You could hardly, after December the
7th, you could hardly get in to the recruitment officers. That’s what woke up this country
in my opinion to what it had to do. There were a lot of isolationists still going until Pearl
Harbor and of course that changed the picture altogether. And--.
JB: When you first heard were you--when you first heard the news did you hear it
on the radio or from somebody tell you?
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AC: I can’t Jack, I can’t exactly remember that. But I mean we learned it very fast
that Sunday morning.
JB: Right.
AC: On the radio, it was, you know, just about everything on the air. That Pearl
Harbor had been bombed. I was on the basketball court--what is now McAllister, you
know, Field house where the graduations and all are. And I think that’s where I first
heard it. I mean I can’t remember whether--I know it wasn’t on the radio. We all went to
radios but it was circulated that the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor. And at first we
didn’t think that there could be nearly as much damage and destruction and
overwhelming of our Navy there that it was. But we learned it very quickly. And General
Summerall, our president then, assembled the whole corps in the field house and made a
statement. And I can’t remember what all he said but I know he was emphasizing the fact
that everyone should remain calm. I remember that. And that’s the way we learned-that’s the way I learned of it.
JB: So now I want to go back and pick up where you were at OCS and after OCS
at Fort Benning.
AC: Well we went to officer candidate school and after four weeks and I was
getting along well there and everything. I had a potential hernia condition. I knew that
already but if you could kind of suck up just to be candid about it, you could, it wouldn’t
show up, but they called a spot inspection one time and you didn’t have time do that. I
wanted to stay in the class I was in, because they had been my classmates at The Citadel.
And when we went to the candidate school, OCS, juniors from all over the country,
ROTC juniors, whether you were at The Citadel which was military and VMI, but it
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applied to Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, Lehigh--where the new coach came from
here--and so the authorities at Fort McClellan thought, “Well it would be good to have
just an all ROTC class together.” And so we were put together. And that’s where I met so
many young men from so many colleges. We were an all ROTC and I don’t mean to say
it in any boastful sense, but we were way ahead of the ordinary enlistee who would come
off the street and begin his training without any previous three years that ROTC schools
had had. And it was very interesting. We were company C and it was very interesting.
Now then, after I was in it about four, maybe five weeks, they had this spot inspection
and caught my hernia. And nothing would do, but they just posthaste assigned me to the
station hospital at Fort Benning. That’s the old original type of long term post. And I
really hated it at the time because I wanted to stay with my friends. But that caused me to
have that operation. I had a hernia operation by a doctor from the Mayo Clinic who had
been put in to the Army. And he repaired my hernia. And then I had to heal up from that
when I stayed down in what they call the casual company at Fort Benning and wait for
the proper time for me to go back into another class. My class graduated on May the 8th,
or the 3rd, I forget which, but it was in the first part of May. I went down. I got permission
to go down to their graduation because it was all my friends. On August the 8th I
graduated because I got into a later class.
JB: And this is 1944?
AC: 1944, that’s correct. And so I came on back and I graduated on August the 8th
and went to the 69th. They all went to the 84th --that’s important in what I’m telling you-they all went to the 84th division which had been an old National Guard Illinois rail
splitter division. It was assembly they had, rail split. And they got their commissions and
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immediately started training. I mean being sent to camps in the East and so forth. And
most of them ended up practically all of them ended up in the 84th division, that division
I’m telling you about. And I continued on until I graduated three months later. It was
three months almost to the day between mine and theirs, theirs and mine. And I was sent
to the 69th Infantry division, like they were in the 83rd, and we shipped--they shipped over
not long after we graduated. I mean they didn’t they got in to that 84th division and they
were gone pretty quick.
JB: Did they go to Europe?
AC: They went to Europe and they went to Winchester, England. Which had been
an old regimental barracks. And they--I had a leave of absence that I got because I
wanted to see them off, and I got a leave of absence from my class and permitted it for a
couple of days, and I kind of saw them off. And it was a sad affair really because I had
wanted to be with them. But anyway they went to Winchester, England, and believe it or
not when we went three months later we entered the same old English barracks,
regimental barracks, that they had just left. So we followed right where they were. Which
is unusual. I mean it just happened as a coincidence.
JB: Right.
AC: And so we did final training. We got a lot of map reading, extra courses in
England there at Winchester and we needed more map reading because of the maps they
had of the continent area and everything, where we knew we were going. And on my
birthday, December the 16th, I was taking what was going to be the final weekend pass
we had to London. London is about forty miles from Winchester. And I had had a couple
of passes before, but I mean that was going to be the last one because we were scheduled
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to move out probably within a week or so. But December the 16th is when the Ardennes
Bulge hit. And we didn’t know what would happen but we got back to Winchester and
we learned that there was no way to work us in to it that fast with what the Germans were
hitting with. And so they you know brought Patton’s Army up immediately and brought
in everything they could that was already experienced. And they pulled everything they
could in to it and you know the result of it in the long run what happened. But that kept
us from going over until after the Bulge. One tragedy that occurred, which I didn’t know
at that time, but a classmate of mine who didn’t be in the 84th division, I forget how he
got in to another division, but he was one of our classmates from Sumter, named Jack
James, and on Christmas Eve in the icy waters of the North Sea his ship was torpedoed
and the whole regiment went down. Jack James. His brother, younger brother George
James, died not too long ago, but was one of the most outstanding lawyers we had in the
state when I was you know holding court and things. And that’s just a sad throw-in that
I’m telling you about. And when we got there and got off the LSTs in knee deep water,
the water was freezing then, I mean this is January, coldest winter Europe had had in fifty
years. We landed at Le Havre. Repaired the harbor there some. And we had such cold.
We got on the forty and eight train system and started moving through France. It was so
cold that I had a machine gun platoon of thirty-six men and when we--I don’t know if
you care about all this detail or not--.
JB: No, no that’s good.
AC: But it’s in my head--.
JB: No that’s good, as much as you can.
AC: But I had to figure out a way to keep having frostbite and frozen feet and so
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we hit on it pretty early as we got about three o’clock in the morning on those trains. We
went right in the middle of the night. We got off at Le Havre and soaking wet up to here
knee deep water we went in and got on those trains that were waiting. Forty and eight,
really was literally. Forty horses and eight men, other way around forty men and eight
horses. And we laced my enlisted men like just like this so that this was a man’s hands he
had the feet of his fellow soldier and we just required them to rub all night (rubbing
sound). Until the next morning until the train had kept on moving and we got some relief
from--some of it came we were told from the French, you know small farmer people you
know, they brought blankets and extra towels and things and so then we traveled--.
JB: Tell me about that. How the French treated you know you were just passing
through--.
AC: Our experience with them I’ve heard of others but our experience with them
was all plus, Jack. They--Normandy was a place, you know you cry if you look at that
cemetery, and Normandy was where the people seemed to appreciate it most what the
Germans had been taken out because there were Germans spread in almost every town
and homes and all and they were pretty well oppressed. And so they were the first to get
freed you know after we invaded. But as I say, we came on and that later time in the first
of ’44--first of ’45 that would be, right? Because yeah--.
JB: Right, early ’45.
AC: Early ’45 January and all. And when we were going we went through Spa, a
little place meaning you know resort, that’s where I learned that word. Spa is a word for
resort. And Spa, Belgium is a right large city we went through there and we went right
through Bastogne and as we were moving further beyond Bastogne on either side of the
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road we were going through muddy roads and animals were all up like that they’d been
pulled off the side of the road so we could get through. They were frozen. And then on
each side of the road graves registration was doing their job which they had not
completed at all. And they were stacking American frozen bodies like cord wood. And I
was pretty young myself but I had eighteen, nineteen year old kids on my--and we went
right on through that though.
JB: Tell me how you felt when you saw that--.
AC: Sir?
JB: Tell me how you felt when you saw this--these American bodies stacked up-how your men felt.
AC: It depressed me more than anything I can tell you. You just, when you saw
them going like cord wood, like you stack that, there wasn’t--it was a blessing in it in a
way, I mean they could handle the bodies easier, because it was still freezing.
Temperature was below zero, I mean below thirty-two.
JB: Did you continue that massaging of the feet?
AC: Yeah, we continued it for one more night. And then we had enough extra
towels and things like that that we didn’t have to do it. That’s my recall. Because I know
we weren’t doing it when--and we spent a couple of nights in Belgium in a farm area in
some barns and that was where all the hay and everything was and that was a plus for us.
And then we moved on. We relieved my division relieved the 100th division. The 100th
division. Just beyond the Siegfried line. And we took up positions there. They had had a
right tough time in the Bulge thing but they were relieved by us and by that time the
Bulge had failed and the Germans were retreating and so we took up positions in an area
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called the Eifel, E-i-f-e-l, Eifel area. It’s kind of a word that means it’s real rolling hills
and streams and things like beautiful area, not like a mountain but it was like hills and
that’s where we took up position, defensive position, and relieved the 100th and so we
were shelled by the Germans during that period I mean they would not heavily but we
had a lot of mortar fire shot over from beyond where the hills were on us. And I had one
experience that I don’t see how I got out of it. We lost contact with one of my--we had
the Germans had all left those little villages. They’d moved inland and so we had
complete command of those little villages. And down in the cellar is where I had my CP,
my command post, in one of them. And we lost radio contact through the little lines that
we used in those days. You’d stretch them. It was a direct communication system and we
lost contact. And we had--I had a couple of teams of--I had a heavy machine gun platoon
a forty, twenty, thirty caliber water-cooled that was the so called artillery of an infantry
company. You had, I’m sure you probably know all this, but you had a platoon, two
platoons, of heavy machine guns and Doc Knapke, Knapke, of German descent he had
the other platoon, and I had the first platoon.
JB: How did you spell his name?
AC: K-n-a-I think-p-k-e. Over in Mount Pleasant here you have a Knapke
Boulevard or something. It’s a silent K. Like napke.
JB: Right.
AC: Right near where I live in my retirement place. And so anyway. I was telling
about being real concerned that maybe our reconnaissance, hostile reconnaissance from
the Germans. We were face to face between the hills. And whether they had you know
been ambushed or something really concerned me. So I started. I took my instrument
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corporal with me and we started down the ridge to go down to where on the front part of
that ridge that machine gun had been posted, those two positions. Well you had to walk
on the ridge. That was a dangerous way to do. Cause Germans you know they grew up
fighting and they catch you on a ridge that was just duck soup. But the snows were
beginning to melt then, some on the sides and you couldn’t walk on the back side of a
ridge, which you’d want to. We had to go down the ridge itself. And we got caught, my
instrument corporal and I did, got caught in a deluge of sixty to eighty millimeter mortar
fire. And so we both dropped down and spread apart as much as we could. And I’m
telling you Jack those shells, they were small shells, but they’d come down (sounds) puh,
boom, puh, boom, and they were so close to us I just knew they were going to drop on us.
Dropped on your back you were gone, I mean if it dropped on your leg, you might get by.
That’s what happened to my instrument corporal. He got hit on the leg by one of the
shrapnel from that mortar fire and I did not. And I had to carry him back to the CP and go
back out again. When we carried him to the CP we took him to the first aid station. And
they said he’s got to go back because his leg is broken. That shell had broken part of his
leg. I never saw him again. But anyway, the line, we found a break in the line and
repaired it. So that the machine guns we had out there were ok and--.
JB: So that was the communication line--.
AC: That was the communication line--.
JB: The radio line--.
AC: Strictly communication line. When I would have communication with them
from time to time, the CP, because I wanted to know if anything had happened and then
when we didn’t get any response and that’s when we got concerned and did what I just
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explained.
JB: Right.
AC: But when we found out it was alright then we went through that night but we
had constant mortar fire from them. And that lasted about two weeks and then we there
were the colonel started coming down among us and telling us that we were not long
before going out forward and so we got ready for it. And one of my men, who I was
surprised he did it--deserted; I mean he couldn’t take it. I mean he just took off. But that
was the only one.
JB: What did getting ready for it mean I mean in terms of--.
AC: It meant you had all your ammunition, small arms and the rifle. You had in
each battalion, you had four ABCD, EFGH, and then I and no J, I skipped J, IKLMN and
there were four of those in each battalion, four companies. Or maybe three, I can’t
remember; it’s a long time ago. But anyway, I knew exactly what we had. We had in our
platoon we had three rifle squads and then my machine gun platoon and the other
machine gun platoon. And we had sixty millimeter mortars in that same heavy weapons
company. We called our machine gun heavy weapons company. And they had eighty
millimeter mortars, a couple of those but more sixty millimeter mortars for firing artillery
on the shorter range like what we got caught in. So anyway you got ready and you also
had conversation with your men and you know made them try to make them feel that all
was going to be ok as long as we did what we were supposed to do. And we knew what
we were going to do. We were going to go down that hill, across that stream and take a
hill that the Germans you know were occupying. And so we were here and dipped down
and they were there. They never gave indication that they were going to attack us. They
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were in a defensive posture the whole time.
JB: Were they were on the other side of this stream?
AC: Sir?
JB: Were they on the other side of this stream?
AC: Yes sir. That’s where they were. Down and up and on the other side of the
stream. And so we knew at six O’clock in the morning that we were to go out and all of
our artillery division artillery way behind us, overhead support, they opened up at about
five O’clock and just laid down as much as they could I mean you know up on that hill
where the Germans were. And so we about an hour after that let up, I mean it went on for
about an hour, and then when it let up we moved so as not to be caught in our own fire
artillery fire. And we got up across the stream and our troops moved right on up the hill
and when we got up there the Germans were really laying down a lot of artillery on us
then and they had what they called Screaming Meemee’s. They were a psychological
thing sirens going off and all that kind of thing. Sort of to try you know frightening and
concerned, especially young troops like we were. And so when we got up on the hill our
infantry had pushed them off the hill. And when they got pushed off the hill that’s when
we caught more artillery from them. And we got up on the hill and I knew that we needed
to--the Germans had a, and we were taught this, the Germans had a fixed way of
conducting situations like this. As soon as you would take a position and get them off,
they would counterattack. That was the just like their bible, I mean. And so we needed to
put a--when we got up on that hill then they got the ridge down below that, and we
needed to--and we felt pretty safe to try to move down with our machine guns and put
them on the ridge and make more advance with machine gun fire. You can move them
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back with that. And so the only way to do that was to go across the open space, open field
space and I had to do it. To go down and reconnoiter what I was going to do was
reconnoiter to see what the situation down on the ridge was and then motion them up if it
was feasible. And I got there was no way to do it but to just move as quick as you could
because I was in an open field on the top of that hill. And I never really--I was on the
track team at The Citadel and I tell you, I utilized that all I could. I was a sprinter. But
right in the middle of that field I got hit. I thought my hip was gone. I got hit in the side.
But I noticed that I was able to keep on kind of going. And I did keep on going. I got in to
a small decline place, kind of a hiding place, and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to go
on. And so I looked back and I had my eye glass things and all and I could see the captain
and those back there and I started back, you know because I knew I couldn’t make it
down there and do the reconnoitering because I felt that I couldn’t move this leg it
seemed. So I just started pushing back inch by inch until I did get back. And then I was
evacuated.
JB: How long did that take getting that, to get back how long did that take?
AC: At least five minutes, four or five minutes just kind of inched along, four or
five minutes. So--.
JB: And how were you evacuated?
AC: To the first aid station of our local first and then to a field hospital and then
from the field hospital I was put on a train and of all places to Paris. The American
Hospital of Paris was built in 1938 before the war. A beautiful hospital. And this was
talking about seven or eight years later I mean, you know so it was still a new hospital
kind of. And I was fortunate you know to get to that hospital.
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JB: Now on the initial, after, getting back to the initial first aid station were you
on a stretcher?
AC: Yeah on a stretcher. I was put on a stretcher on the jeep that our medial
section had and they just took off. And got back to there and I had my wound dressed and
they didn’t know, you know the extent of it. They couldn’t tell. I mean I was bleeding.
And so they stopped all that. And I got on the--when I got back to the hospital in Paris
because I was, you know given a real fine hospital room and--.
JB: Did they give you anything for pain?
AC: Oh yeah well--.
JB: That first one--.
AC: All the way I meant to tell you all the way on that evacuation train they
found out that I was not allergic to penicillin. In World War I that’s why we lost so
many--infection. Just didn’t have this penicillin just stopped infection far more times than
it didn’t. And I must have gotten, I know I got several million units. They would come by
on the train and they had a little chart as to when you’d last had it and they’d pump you
with some more penicillin. So I mean that kept me from having an infection. And then
when I began to be treated at the hospital I was continued on the medicines like penicillin
and all. After, I can’t remember how long, but they would come in and look at me and
check at me and one of the doctors finally told me how lucky I was. He said if you had
gotten hit almost any small portion of a fraction more into your hip you wouldn’t have
one. But obvious that you’ve got a glancing. And it was a bullet type thing. It wasn’t so it
appeared to be and, but I’m satisfied it was shrapnel. But anyway after two or three more
months, they made me ambulatory where you could get up and I did see some of Paris.
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For a month or so and then they came back and did the final treatment they wanted to do
on me and was then a month or so after that I was scheduled to go back up to the front.
One thing I forgot, I didn’t forget it, I just didn’t say it. One of the cadets who had been
my roommate for a short period of time towards the end of our time here you got some
people going off to medical school and one thing or another. And so, one of my
roommates was a medical student, retired recently as a colonel in the medical corps. And
you got shifted around a little bit at The Citadel. And I got with a man from Charleston
named E.B. Moore and I roomed with him for about a month. And he was killed in that
first attack and some of the enlisted men knew that he’d been a friend of mine. And he
was a lieutenant in the rifle platoon. And one of them ran over to me before I took off to
try to reconnoiter but he came up to me and he said Lieutenant Moore is killed. (garbled)
JB: So you had just heard that before you got shot?
AC: Yeah, I mean E.B. Moore is listed in on the black bronze plaque on The
Citadel chapel. It’s right there: E.B. Moore. And he had a strange situation. He could
have gotten a, whatever the word was I forget now, words get away from you when you
get to be in your 80s--.
JB: Deferment? Deferment?
AC: Deferment. It meant deferment. I think it was a little more articulated word
than that, but it meant deferment. Just what it did. To go to seminary. He was an
Episcopalian and I was too. And he, and I kept telling him well you know E.B. we’re
going to need priests, too. And he said no but I’m going to do my thing first and then I’m
going to go to seminary. And bless (garbled) it was he was killed right off--E.B. Moore
from Charleston.
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JB: M-o-o-r-e.
AC: Yes, regular Moore name, yes. I never did know him all that well because I
just had him for that short period of time, but he wrote a real nice message in my year
book, you know. I really do hope we’ll be together a whole lot more in the future. He
wrote that in my yearbook before we left The Citadel.
JB: After you left the hospital--.
AC: I went, it took a long time with moving then and it took a long way of
moving from one transportation facility to another. But I mean we could do it. But during
that time that I was on the way back to my position, my company, President Roosevelt
died. And that shook us up some too you know.
JB: Right.
AC: So then as we were moving along, so was the end of the war moving. And
my division, the 69th, met the Russians before I got back. I got back shortly after that, but
they met the Russians on the Elba River. And that was it and we stayed there for maybe
couple more months and-- .
JB: So then when they met the Russians was what just before VE Day?
AC: Right, right. I mean just a matter of days. The Germans, I think, were just
hoping for us to get there. And so our my division met the Russians at the Elba River and
I went down and then we pulled back to a little and they pulled back to a little position
about ten miles West of the Elba. But I took a jeep and went down and you know looked
at the river and everything. The Russians weren’t about to let us if they could help it have
that area. Saxony and Torrengo were the two bread baskets of Germany for farming and
things, but more than that the Germans, I mean the Russians, wanted as much as they
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could have in occupation. And so finally when Churchill, Roosevelt and all of them met
and decided how much of the area that we had conquered that we would pull back and
give to the Russians. The thing was so tense, I guess you would call it, that the Russians
never permitted any fraternization you know with us. And when we would move ten
miles back then the radio communication would say we had moved to so and so, and until
we got out of the area that they were given. And then we took up positions further west.
JB: So was your unit, what were the plans for your unit at that time?
AC: Well it was everybody’s thinking you know you were going to be transferred
you know to the Pacific. And so we pretty well stayed together you know waiting for
that. And then when that happened we and then when the bomb went off.
JB: Right the atomic bomb.
AC: Yeah. Then of course you we pretty well stayed together. And then you know
the point system you could get back. So when I did get back in ’64, excuse me ’46, I had
to start thinking about what I was going to do, what career I was going you know get in to
or what. And I hate to say it, Jack, but I wrote a couple of articles for The Bulldog. It was
the newspaper of The Citadel at the time and I thought well maybe I’ll go into journalism
or something. But I decided in ’46 that I would go to law school. And I went to the
school in September of ’46 and enrolled in the law school. And after I got to be a lawyer I
practiced in Greenville for about five years.
JB: What year did you finished law school? This was at USC? At Carolina?
AC: I actually took the bar before I would have graduated from law school. You
could do that. John West and others did it. Good friends of mine from The Citadel. And
so I got to be a lawyer before I you know was to graduate. I went on up to Greenville and
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started practicing and I did for five years. And my congressman was being opposed that
year by somebody I’m pretty sure he wanted me to, he’d knew I written a lot of things
and he wanted me to come up and help him with his speech writing and all and so I went
up there.
JB: Who was the congressman then?
AC: Bryson. B-r-y-s-o-n. My brother had been his secretary. That’s how I had the
knowledge of him. And my brother went to the Pacific and came out a major. And all
that. But I went on you know to the law school and then after that five years that I
practiced there and did that work in Washington, I thought about going on and getting a
degree the rest of the way, you know at George Washington, and because actually I just
decided I wouldn’t do that. I had a chance to go to Darlington and in 1954 and practice
there with the then Senator Mozingo. And I practiced there for seven years along with
someone named Benny Greer and after seven years we pulled out of there and formed our
own firm. Later I got more involved. I brought some things I don’t know if you’re
interested in them or not. I got, when I was in Darlington, I got involved in a lot of
community activities, as well as in some real big legal litigation. I was chairman of
Darlington Development Board. And as a result of that I brought, was the leader in
bringing four or five real fine industries to Darlington from Chicago and elsewhere. And
I also got very interested in the TEC [technical education centers] program. And so I was
on the first, we combined with Florence, Darlington-Florence, and I was on the first
board of the Florence-Darlington TEC and later was chairman of it. And stayed on it
from until ’42 when I was elected. And then I ran for the legislature and was elected in
’42 and I got off the board.
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JB: Not ’42, it was what ’62--?
AC: I mean--.
JB: ’52--.
AC: I mean, I got off the board, excuse me--.
JB: Yeah.
AC: In ’72.
JB: ’72.
AC: Right see, yeah ’72. And I was in, I also was on the State ETV Commission
from the start. And stayed on it until I--on that and on the tech board at Florence
Darlington--until I was elected to the legislature in ’72. And I was there for two terms. I
didn’t have any opposition after the first term. And in ’76 which was the end of my
second term I was elected. They created eight additional circuit judgeships, and I was one
of them. And then I was circuit judge for ’84, ’70, eight years--and twelve years on the
Supreme Court. I went from the circuit court to the supreme court and then retired. At the
end of my seventieth birthday. Had to. Retired from the supreme court. Two years later I
got kind of tired of playing golf all the time so I entered a vocational deaconate to be a
deacon program here in Charleston. I mean the bishop is here the Bishop Salmon was
here. And so by the mean time my daughter had moved to Charleston. My son-in-law, her
husband, my daughter’s husband, was head of the accounting department at the College
of Charleston. He just retired this year. And so, but they were here in Charleston those
years, until this year, for twelve years. And they live over off Mathis Ferry if you know
that area.
JB: Right.
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AC: And so between my so as I came down here to study in the deacon program
and that was two years and I--we’d come down on the weekends and I’d stay with my
daughter and we’d come down on the weekends, and I thought it was going to be a piece
of cake and it was hard as the dickens. It was. But I did manage to pass the thing. It took
two years. And then I went back up to my parish in Darlington, St. Matthew’s Parrish,
where I had been all that time and was deacon of that parish. And when we moved here
two years ago next month, we moved down here because my wife’s health was pretty
fragile and she had been in an automobile wreck and my daughter was living here and
could help us better instead of having to go up and see her in Darlington. So we and I was
glad to be back down here with my Citadel connections and everything. And it was a
good fit. And so we did come down here two years ago. And it was called, the place we
went to, was called Cooper Hall when we went there, and it was sold out by the time we
got here to the people that they call it The Palms. And so that’s where I live now in
retirement. And so I’ve been around a lot things you know and tried a lot of cases in
court, but always find time to do the--I was active in my church. I was on the vestry and
senior warden and things like that. And I was active in the community. As I said we put
together a development team and I was chairman of it. Going to New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, wherever and we brought down some real good industries. One of the biggest
industries that Darlington got was Nucor Steel. It’s hard to think of a little county like
Darlington having--probably Nucor is the biggest of all the steel companies now. But
anyway that was one of them--and a gear plant and several others. So, but in my
retirement I’ve you know enjoyed my deacon, I’m now deacon of a parish here in Mount
Pleasant. St. Andrews over in Mount Pleasant. And they asked me to called me and asked
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me if I would be deacon here.
JB: So you’re remaining active?
AC: I certainly have. I’ve got a motto that I’ve it’s hard to stay by it but it’s one I
keep by and that is I send--I’m nutty in a certain way, now people will tell you that
because I’ve never stopped doing anything. One of the things that I knew should have
been done a long time ago. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Colonel Robert Adden.
He’s the head of the business administration or he was.
JB: He’s part of this project.
AC: Sir?
JB: He is part of this project.
AC: Oh, well. I knew that Bob Adden deserved an honorary degree like nothing
flat, Jack. I mean. And even when I was in Darlington. I’ve got to look at you some.
Even when I was in Darlington, I wanted to inaugurate a program, and I’d had to do it
through so many people here, ‘cause I’ll tell you why. Do you want to listen to this?
JB: Sure.
AC: When we decided to come here it just cemented in my head we’re going to
get that honorary degree. Bob Adden, when we were freshmen, sophomores and juniors,
all six of those semesters he made A on every course. Now that’s not like at a liberal arts
school where you can dodge physics and math and things like that, you can take geology
study of rocks, but you have to take the tough courses here as you do at the Military
Academy in West Point. He made A on every single one of those courses. And when you
start here and you have that recruit training period, you’re almost just lucky to stay alive.
You lose about ten to fifteen percent attrition after that six weeks crash recruit training
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program. Bob Adden lived through all that and made A on every course. He made A on
the liberal arts courses. He made A on the science courses. Until he got to be a junior,
which is the year we left. And the easiest course that he had in the business
administration curriculum was called raw materials. Now I wasn’t in that. I was in
political science, but I found this out from the others. And they all told me in the business
that that was the one course that almost everybody could make an A or B in because it
was the easiest course and he made a B in that one course. And I labeled it this way: I
said, “Bob”--when we got in the Army basic training, I said, “Bob I might as well tell you
know you haven’t fooled me a bit. The only thing that exceeds your talent is your
modesty. And you were afraid if you made an A in that easiest course, too, that I’d call
you a bookworm.” That’s a true story. But he did, Jack, he made A in every course and
when he was badly wounded. I need to go back a little bit on the war for this. I got
separated as you heard me say when that hernia hit me.
JB: Right.
AC: They all went to the 84th division. I’ve said that in here. They got caught up
in one of the most absolutely brutal firefights ever. I lost E.B. Moore in the way that I
said. He just happened to be a straggler, a string along man like I was, to get in to the
69th. We lost the best man in our class called Creswell Darlington. Father was a general.
We lost George Browning of Goldville. It was called that then; it’s Joanna now. We lost
Hubie Jones. We lost one after another of my best buddies. And Bob Adden is alive
today. I don’t know whether I should tell this but I know--isn’t there a certain amount of
confidentiality in this now?
JB: We’ll treat it that way. Yes.
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AC: I would on this one. Except that somebody finally pestered him until he
coughed it up lately. The way he’s alive today is that he was in that Siegfried Line fight
and he was badly wounded. The Germans were going along with their burp guns; it’s
hard for me to stay with this now. Their burp guns were used a lot of times to weed out
the wounded and finished them off. And they went around in that area where Bob Adden
was wounded and he had to feign that he was dead. And he never told that until a certain
close friend of his in St. John’s Lutheran Church told it and told it to me in the utmost of
confidence.
JB: Well, actually I got him to tell me that story.
AC: You did? Well, he’s-JB: But you’ve given it a little more detail.
AC: Well that’s the detail--.
JB: He said he was--.
AC: I’ll tell you another detail about the amazing Bob Adden. Why I don’t
worship any human beings but if I did I’d come as close to him as anybody I’ve ever
known. He died. His father was murdered. This can’t go out of here now, while he was in
his mother’s womb, his father was murdered, and his mother raised him from that. And
can you see why I determined to make sure that with his academic excellence with I
knew how everyone raved about him as a teacher that had been alumni after us you see. I
determined to do it and when I got down here I set right to work. And I found out from a
member of the board of visitors. I said I don’t want you to say I’m doing this because I
want your vote when the time comes to decide if this man should get it. I don’t want that.
I have to find out from somebody how what the system is for doing this. What’s the
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procedure. And a man who is on the board, who is a fine lawyer up in Kingstree right
now and was in my court some time when I would hold court and he would try cases. I
knew he was a clean young man. So I trusted him to tell me exactly what you do how you
do it. And he outlined it in detail and I followed that and I immediately got on the
telephone and I can show you my records. I’d love to do it sometime, anytime. I could
show you the procedure I used. First letter I wrote was to General Rosa and I told him
why I was putting that nomination in the pot to get an honorary degree. I knew--they
made a mistake and gave me one way back, so I was chief justice, I mean that didn’t fool
me. I mean I appreciated it, but I knew that had a lot to do with it you know. But Bob
Adden was so modest, that was his only overriding virtue of his talent. And so--.
JB: He is still quite modest.
AC: He is, isn’t he?
JB: He is.
AC: He is. And I love him for it. I wrote that first letter to General Rosa and broke
the ice and told him that there would be other letters coming but that I could say in a
short few words why I would think that Robert S. Adden should have an honorary degree
from his alma mater and I told him. And from that time for about two months he got
thirty-two letters from people who believed that he should have it, too. And each one of
those people following the procedure that the lawyer in Kingstree gave me who’s on the
board. I knew when you had to have them in by. I knew what the criteria was and so
forth. And I followed his instructions to the letter. And I had nothing but absolute people
waving their arms back in reply to me saying, “Why didn’t I think of that before?”
Several of them I mean not everyone, but some of them said that should have been done a
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long time ago. I had twelve fellow cadets like I was that knew him like we did at school.
He helped people on their examinations. In these letters that I’d love for you to see them.
He’d like for you to see them. And several of the letters the person would say I’d doubt if
I had a passed my examinations if he hadn’t helped me at examination time. When he
was a student, he was just brilliant, there was something in his head. I used to say there
was something wrong with him in a joking way, because imagine not having a father,
being raised by a mother altogether and all that and coming in and doing what he’s done.
So I talked to each one of these classmates of ours and I told them what should be in the
letter, what the criteria was and I said send me a copy of the letters so we can preserve it
for a brochure to give to Bobby later. I then turned to his wife, who’s very much aware of
his career. Sometimes a wife is not. But she was. And I got her to give me the names of
people who after my time and our time had appreciated Bob’s teaching excellence. And I
don’t see a thing wrong with your seeing the letters. They--.
JB: Well let me ask you this. Could I get copies of it and we’ll put them in this
archive.
AC: I’ll work with you in any way on that. I’ll do. You know I’ve forced Bobby
to accept the reward he’s getting. I’ve told him, I said I’m out of patience with you know.
I did it in the right way you know. And he appreciates it because he knows it’s genuine.
These letters that you will read, they are better than the letters I got when I got the Durant
Most Effective Lawyer Award. These letters just come straight from the heart. And not
only the ones that were classmates, but I’m talking about the ones he taught. That
relationship was teacher student as you know. I’m not preaching to you Jack, I’m just
having to make sure that I get it out. And people like Perry Earl from Greenville. I don’t
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know if you’ve heard of that name or not but he gave the tennis courts down here. He
was cadet colonel when he was here in class of ’61. He was just thrilled plum to death he
said that if it hadn’t been for Bob Adden, in his letter that he wrote to General Rosa, he
said if it hadn’t been for Bob Adden, I would have never gone to--what do you call the
programs that when you don’t just get a degree, you get a master’s and that kind of thing-and Bob Adden convinced him and he put it in his letter to me and to the General.
Convinced him and he said it almost like he almost had to do it to please Bobby to send
him to the University of Virginia to one of those programs. And he said because of what I
learned in there I was able to set up a bank, and this is in his letter, as soon as I got out of
school out of that master’s program. And that’s just the way Bobby’s been interested in
his students. Interested in every one of them. Supports athletics like nothing mad.
Balanced in all of those ways. And I never. I’ll give you--that thing has been such an
incredible fulfillment to me that I’m going to give you some other letters I wrote. Do you
care?
JB: No, that’s fine. That’ll be terrific.
AC: I had--I don’t know if you heard about this. I don’t see any reason why you
would necessarily but they labeled our class, because we didn’t have a senior year--as
“the class that never was.” I don’t know if you’ve heard that expression. And they didn’t
mean it in a demeaning way--.
JB: Right.
AC: But it had that effect. And I determined to make known what happened to the
class of ’44, my class. And when I begged the authorities, the administration, the Provost
and the President, General and the board, to let me or someone tell the story of what
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happened to the class of ’44, the answer was, “We can’t do that.” They said and they had
a good reason, and I knew that was going to come, but I knew I was going to come again
too. They have a precedent that they won’t allow any supporting comments be made by
somebody who thinks a whole lot of the fellow who’s going to get the degree. They have
to confine it to the president giving it out like it does. And I mean, like I said when I
wrote the provost and I begged him again to let us do what they finally did, I said,
“Understandably, the board does not want to break that precedent because it would lead
to all kind of problems. But this is different because it involves the man who is getting
the degree, the honorary degree, and also was in the class that never was. And we want to
explain why we are not the class that never was.” And it’s amazing, Jack, how short a
time it takes for people that graduate in the years after that not to know much of anything
about this. And there’s a man over at--I’m not--I’m telling you all facts. There’s a man
over there now his name is Bebensee. I don’t know if you’ve heard that name, but he is,
he came as a salvation to me in the end of my campaign to get this thing for Bob Adden
because he was brought in here by Bob Adden as an understudy and he knows everything
that Bob Adden did to increase the quality of the program, better standing with the
association of colleges and all that. He knew that better than anybody. And he helped me
by writing one of the letters and his letter supplied that kind of help. But all of the other
letters that came from alumni just say he was an incomparable teacher, that he was the
best teacher. Now you’ll see them because I think it’s a most unusual thing and I’m just
so happy that we pulled it off. And finally I’m going to show you a letter that I wrote to
the provost as a dead, as a last ditch effort. I wrote him a letter that long and begged him
to rethink that precedent problem. It’s not a precedent when you have the other factors in
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it that we have. That Bobby Adden was in that class. And in this letter and in this letter I
had an interview with the provost. You know those provosts are powerful and I could
read in his eyes that he was sympathetic, but he was sort of like “but there’s nothing I can
do.” But I saw enough sympathy I him just to keep up to get it. And I’ll show you the
letter I finally wrote him. And I think it had a lot of bearing on it and I got Bebensee
who’s the man I just mentioned the name of he-JB: How’s he spell his name?
AC: Bebensee B-e-b-e-n-s-double-e. He lives here, right near by where my
retirement home is right off of Mathis Ferry. And he was rose to be after Bobby to be
Dean of the head of the whole program. He did that for about three years and he said he
wanted to just be part of the keep moving element and so he’s still there but he can get
around and do things that’s he’s not just pinned do to. And he’s a force for just good at
that college. And he used his best offices to sell what I wanted to do to the provost. And
I’m convinced--and I’m going to give you that letter that I wrote to the provost, and I’m
convinced that he probably was the most influential person in talking with General Rosa
and the Board than anybody. I can never adequately tell you the thrill I got when I got a
call from Bebensee who is on--he’s on faculty and the way he is and he was in touch with
them all the time, and I got this call from him not long before the decision was made. I
mean to not let me do it. And he said, Lee they’re going to let you do it. And I fudged a
little bit on the time they said I could have. I didn’t think they’d interrupt me, I didn’t
take but three or four or five minutes, but they wanted two minutes. You couldn’t do it in
two, you could do it in five, not the best you could, but you could do it. You weren’t at
graduation where you?
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JB: No.
AC: I wish you had been because--.
JB: Do you have it written out?
AC: I have a copy of it, I brought to you.
JB: Alright. We will put that in the archive too.
AC: Alright. I brought a couple of other things Jack that I don’t. If you believe I’ll
leave the room if you believe that I want to give you these other things as an
aggrandizement of myself--.
JB: No, no, no.
AC: That I have, but God has blessed me in this way. He’s addicted me to the
proposition that the surest route to disillusionment, depression, failure is to stop moving.
And the bottom of one of these things I’m going to leave with you goes to the 90th
birthday celebration for a great Evans, Chief Justice. He was--they were having a
breakfast for him and it’s in the bottom of what the man said about me on the occasion of
this thing. I’m giving you that to show you why I’m the way I am about just don’t stop
moving. And I got a lot of inspiration from that in that bottom of that nice things he said
about me. Just take the thing, you’ll get to see it when you see it. You’re going to have it
because I’m going to leave it with you. But I’m more interested in your seeing what--.
JB: These are copies right?
AC: These are copies. I’m going to leave them with you. I’m more interested in
your reading what Oliver Wendell Holmes said on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.
And so when I sometime got to thinking well at your age you ought to slow down a little
bit. Soon as I read what he said on his ninetieth birthday geared me up again at age
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eighty-six next month and few days, I could do the Bobby Adden thing. And these letters
that you will see--I’m going--I just need, I didn’t bring all of them because I’m a little bit
too bashful to try to do that--.
END OF INTERVIEW
Rachel Carr, March 27, 2009
KG, December 9, 2009
KT, December 14, 2009
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Chandler discusses the decision to attend The Citadel and recalls that his family lacked the resources to send him to a North East or Ivy League School. Though he enrolled in ’39, he was forced to delay his education for financial reasons, and became part of the class of ’44. After attending OCS training he was commissioned as 2nd Lt. in the 271st Infantry, 69th Division and served with distinction in the European Theater during WWII. He recounts his combat experiences, including when he was injured in Germany along the Siegfried Line, an incident for which he received the Purple Heart. After returning from the war, Chandler began a civic and legal career, elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives, Circuit Judge, Associate Justice and eventually the Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He has remained active in his community, both through economic development boards as well as in his church. He currently presides as Deacon of his church in Mt. Pleasant, SC where he resides with his wife.
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TRANSCRIPT – JAMES A. GRIMSLEY
Interviewee: JAMES A. GRIMSLEY
Interviewer: Jack Bass
Interview Date: October 2, 2008
Location: The Citadel Board of Visitors Room
Length: 1 CD; 43 minutes and 45 seconds
James A. Grimsley: All the details I gave in whatever that previous interview was
and just use that as a basis if you want to. And then you can take from that if you want to.
I’ll leave that up to you.
Jack Bass: Right. What I was going to do is we’d just archive them together so the
record will be there. But let me ask you this question first: Tell me how you made the
decision to come to The Citadel as an undergraduate.
JG: I think to simplify, I had an uncle who was a Citadel graduate, Class of 1931.
After graduation he was an engineer and had a job with the Highway Department that
happened to be in our hometown of Florence. He was from Columbia originally and
being in the Depression time, he was last in and first to go when they started cutting
people out because of the Depression. So he moved in with my family who took him in to
give him a place to live while he continued to look for work. The major impact on me as
a ten or eleven year old was that I had to share my bedroom with him (Laughter); I was
less than happy about that but, nonetheless, I got to know him and also he had his
yearbook, The Sphinx Citadel yearbook, and I was fascinated with it. I saw the pictures of
the Army Officers and the Sam Browne belts and the riding trousers and boots and I said
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"That's for me." On such weighty matters are decisions made but I determined then that I
was going to The Citadel. It was just built in. There was no pushing by anybody, in fact,
the next door neighbor, the youngest of three or four boys was attending Presbyterian
College and did his darndest to talk me into going to PC, but The Citadel was just
foremost on my mind and my parents supported me in this, and therefore I came.
JB: What did your father do in Florence?
JG: He was with the Railway Express Agency. They were affiliated with the
Atlantic Coast Line, not affiliated, but the Atlantic Coast Line was a major railroad and
Railway Express ran on their line. He was a messenger, as they called it. He was out of
town. He had a run between Florence and Richmond and Florence and Washington, DC
and back. My mother was a music teacher. She taught music the whole time I was
growing up.
JB: So, I know you were a part of that Class of 1942 where I think almost
everybody got their orders to active duty on graduation day.
JG: Just about, that's right. We graduated on May 30, 1942 and went on active
duty on the 4th of June.
JB: And then your World War II experiences were pretty much covered in that
earlier interview, but is there anything that you might want to either reiterate because it
had some impact on you in later life or something that you might have thought of since
that interview.
JG: I don't recall the interview exactly but I'll take an oath that it was factually
correct (Laughter). I do recall that I was fascinated with what I learned about The Citadel
and my experience and so I wanted to go in the Army. So the first chance I had after the
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war I went right on active duty as a Reserve Officer. I recall that I was in for, I guess
another six or eight months, and I became engaged to be married in December. In early
November of that year I got word that I was to go to China. General Marshall, George
Marshall, was sending a delegation to China and they were looking for military people to
go with him and I was one of that group. Of course, it sounded fascinating to me but I
said "I'm getting ready to get married, can I take family?" "No, no family. You've got to
go without family." I said "Well, how do I get out of this assignment?" and they said
"Well, you can get out of the Army." So I promptly went down the next day and turned in
my resignation.
JB: So that was in November of 1946?
JG: 1945, November of 1945 and of course, the rest is, I think, known.
JB: And then you spent a few years as a civilian after that, am I correct?
JG: I came back on active duty in 1948. I really tried hard to be a good civilian. I
was a civilian for not quite two and a half years and I tried. I started at $27.50 a week at a
lumber yard in my home town and then became manager of a local gas utility. I got one
of those white collar jobs. But deep down I just missed the army and knew that I really
felt a void in not being back in the army. President Truman, bless his heart, picked up the
gauntlet when the British pulled out of the Mediterranean and the army expanded at that
time. I promptly put in my request for active duty and got it right away. I came back on
active duty in 1948.
JB: Had you been active in the reserves?
JG: Active in the reserves; yes, I stayed in the reserves and was active in the
reserves for several sessions at Fort Jackson and a couple activities in the hometown. I
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maintained my currency as best I could.
JB: Tell me what happened after you went back on active duty and leading up to
the experience in Vietnam.
JG: Very briefly, I went to Fort Jackson which was a basic training center and I
was there almost two years. Then I went to the Infantry School, to the Advanced Course,
and from there I felt sure I was going to be packed right off to [South Korea]. That was
when the U.S. began the build-up under President Truman's direction, began the build-up
in Europe. That's when as I recall we sent five divisions over there. I was with the
seventy-seventh Infantry Division at Fort Jackson and it was one of the divisions that
went over there. I got to Europe in that capacity and was there three years. I came back to
the Command and General Staff College and eventually was picked for Vietnam and that
was my first experience, went over of course, without family. It was a one year tour to
begin with but to my chagrin and my wife's chagrin it was lengthened to eighteen
months. I pulled that stint and came back and the rest, I think, is in my biography.
JB: Tell me about the experience in Vietnam. I know you got wounded.
JG: Yes.
JB: Tell me that story.
JG: Well, the first time I was in Vietnam, I was not wounded. When I got
wounded in Vietnam, it was the second time, it was a Japanese machine gun bullet right
through my left arm here, you can see the crook here. That's my Vietnam arm, I call it. It
was permanent nerve damage; you can see the difference in my hands.
JB: Right. That was shot in the first time in World War II, correct?
JG: This was the second time. The first I got hit just above the eye with some
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shell fragments and then this happened. There was a third instance where again the left
shoulder was hit. That was later on, on Okinawa. I don't know if I answered your
question or not.
JB: What was going on at the time when you did get wounded in Vietnam?
JG: Well, with me or with the country?
JB: With you and your unit. You were in what capacity at that time?
JG: Well, by that time I was field grade. I was Captain in an Infantry Battalion
and then Company Commander and then Battalion Plans Officer, S3. We were working
with the Vietnamese as advisors, that's what we were doing. I went with an advisory
group, called JUSMAG (Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group). We were not really a unit
then but it was quite a build-up under a noted Army General known as "Hanging Sam"
Williams. “Hanging Sam,” he was almost mean enough to earn that nickname but he had
been the Commander of the units’ right after World War II in Germany when they had
a hanging for some of the Nazi bigwigs. He was in charge of that so he got the nickname
"Hanging Sam." He was my boss for a stretch.
JB: So, were you in an actual battle when that injury occurred in Vietnam?
JG: Yes. Yes. Well yes, I was with the Advisory Group who were with
Vietnamese units; they were not with a U.S. unit.
JB: Okay. So was it in Infantry Combat?
JG: Infantry Combat, yes.
JB: So, in effect, it was the South Vietnamese unit fighting the North Vietnamese.
JG: That's correct, yes. The Viet Cong who were the "VC" as we called them and
they were creatures of the North Vietnamese, yes.
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JB: Right, so that was more of the guerrilla operation.
JG: That's correct. Their sanctuary was in Cambodia and they came across the
border to do their thing, now we were not permitted to go into Cambodia; I don't say we
didn't go into Cambodia because you really didn't know whether you were in Vietnam or
Cambodia in the jungle but we didn't deliberately go into Cambodia because we were
prohibited.
JB: So you got hit with what, a rifle shot?
JG: No, no, a shell fragment. Mortar artillery.
JB: So that put you out of commission for a while.
JG: Yes.
JB: Compare a little bit what the difference was in World War II fighting and the
Vietnam War from your own personal experience.
JG: I think the major difference was, in World War II, we knew who we were
fighting. There was no doubt about it. In Vietnam, it made it more difficult because of the
fact that the South Vietnamese were tough little soldiers and very fine little people but for
them it was a civil war because they were fighting enemies on the North. There were two
different cultures. The South Vietnamese, it was always, not paradoxical to me, but it was
quite revealing to me. The South Vietnamese were somewhat like Southerners in the
United States; a little bit laid back a tad, only moving slowly while the North was more
vigorous because it was just different. I don't know that there were ethnic differences, but
difference in the makeup of the people. In the north, the climate was cooler up there; they
were close to China and Hanoi or in Hanoi itself. I noticed that difference.
JB: And then you remained on active duty and, at one point I believe, you got a
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Master's Degree.
JG: After a period of time, I went to the National War College. National War
College had an agreement with the Defense Department that we could take additional
courses during our time at the National War College at night, not part of the curriculum
of the National War College, and these courses were credited to the Master's Degree
program. So I stayed on after I graduated from the National War College in May of
whatever year it was for the following summer and completed my Master's work in
International Affairs.
JB: And that was where?
JG: Right in Washington, DC at the Pentagon.
JB: Am I correct that that program was run by George Washington University?
JG: That's correct. George Washington University, it surely was. I benefited very,
very much from the course itself. Then from there, the next assignment, I went to SHAPE
headquarters, then in France, in Paris. Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe we
called it SHAPE. Then in Paris, they moved to Brussels subsequently. It started out in
France.
JB: So there, I presume your wife was with you as well.
JG: Yes, she accompanied me to Europe, yes; and children.
JB: Let me ask you a little more about the SHAPE assignment. Tell me just what
was going on in Europe at the time. What was Supreme Allied Headquarters focusing on
primarily at that time?
JG: Well, the biggest concern then was the Soviet Union or Russia; still very
much a threat at least a perceived threat and of course they had their allies in East
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Germany, so things were tense along the border between France and Germany. We had to
pay attention to what was going on. General [Lyman] Lemnitzer was the Commander of
SHAPE at the time which was giving most of its attention to what was going on with the
potential conflict with the Soviet Union or Russia.
JB: So really the third situation for you in a sense, was the Cold War?
JG: Yes, that's right.
JB: And you were engaged, primarily, in what capacity at SHAPE?
JG: At SHAPE, I was with the Plans and Operations division, didn’t have a troop
assignment.
JB: Right.
JG: SHAPE itself didn't have any troops except for the housekeeping type troops.
I was with the operating element of SHAPE headquarters.
JB: Explain to me in terms, at that time, SHAPE's role. Was it in just being
prepared for any emergency or keeping an eye on things or, how would you define it
from your experience?
JG: No, General Lemnitzer had much more authority than that. He, in effect,
would assume control of all U.S. forces in Europe in case of conflict. He did not have
control over them during the time. We had a Commander in Chief U.S. Army Europe,
and Air Force, and I’m sure the Navy had equivalent headquarters. So those component
headquarters were there. SHAPE would have served as overall headquarters in case we
went to war with Russia or the Soviet Union.
JB: Tell me how you ended up coming to The Citadel in your first capacity,
returning to The Citadel, really.
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9
JG: Well, I was back in The Pentagon and I knew I was about to come up for
reassignment--didn't know where and I was ready to get out of The Pentagon. I was in the
operations side of things. It was a good assignment; long hours, typical bureaucratic
minutiae always in any big headquarters. I was approached by, let’s see (Pause), I am
getting my eras mixed up here. Oh, I volunteered from SHAPE to go to Vietnam. That's
when I went for my second time; that's what I was trying to think of. That’s when I came
back from there and then went to Europe again.
JB: And then did someone at The Citadel contact you or did you learn of--?
JG: That's where I wanted to pick up your question. Yes, The Citadel contacted
me and knew that I was due for reassignment and wondered what I thought about getting
out of the service and coming to The Citadel. It was like a cold shower because it was so
unexpected. But I talked to my wife; I'd had thirty-three years in by that time, counting
the reserve time that I was off right after World War II. So I said, "Yes." So I was asked
to come down and I retired. I came down one October of whatever year it was as vice
president here. The president of The Citadel is the one who contacted me, a classmate of
mine, General Seignious, George Seignious. I came down and he, fortunately--the reason
I took the job was because I was academic dean, vice president was the title but academic
dean was in charge of the academic side. I had everything else under me so I had a full
plate and it was a brand new world for me because I had never been associated with a
college other than as a student. I had everything to do with the administrative side of the
college plus dealing with the alumni and all those things. So it was a full time opportunity
and a full time experience and I enjoyed it.
Then in due course, General Seignious resigned, he got married again and was
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concentrating on getting married. I was kind of running The Citadel for him, which, by
his admission, he knew. He was my boss and I made sure I always remembered that. That
was no problem because we were close friends anyway. Then when General Seignious
resigned from The Citadel and went to Washington, I believe, to live. The Board of
Visitors came to me and asked me if I would accept the position and I did, it was
understood, on probation of August whatever year and in December I was asked to take it
full time, which I did and stayed on for the rest of the time until I retired from the college.
JB: Tell me how the World War II experience and the subsequent Army career
prepared you for the presidency of The Citadel, as well as being a graduate, of course.
JG: Yes. I think the preparation was (Pause) I think it was in learning how, as an
army officer on active duty and dealing with troops and all the multitude of
responsibilities that handled; it transferred or translated over to do it in running a college
except you didn't deal with soldiers; you dealt with college students, in this case, Citadel
cadets. I think it was made easier for me coming to The Citadel because it was a military
college so there was a structure here that I understood. They just wore cadet uniforms and
not army uniforms. But the structure was easy to fit into and so that made the transition-I'm not sure--if I had gone to a strictly civilian institution, I would have had more
personal hurdles to overcome than coming to The Citadel because I knew the college, I
knew the system and I think, with becoming modesty, the college knew who I was and
what I had done and therefore that side made it easier for me.
JB: Now, I know there were a number of accomplishments made during your
presidency here but I'd like for you to just tell me about some of them and what they
were. What was going on during that, was it eight years, nine years--?
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11
JG: Nine years.
JB: That’s what I thought.
JG: Well, I don't want to try to be too lengthy, I won't be lengthy at all. The
biggest contribution, I think, was to restore the role of the Corps of Cadets and those who
dealt with the Corps of Cadets. By that--the college had forgotten--I'm not throwing
stones or anything--not a lot of attention was being given to the Corps. A lot was thrown
to the Commandant, who was fine; he was, at that time, appointed by the army and
double in brass. He was the Commandant of Cadets but also head of the Army ROTC. I
pushed hard and was successful in making that position a retired capacity for the
individual and let the army colonel do his thing with the ROTC. Well, the army was
delighted with that. They didn't want their guy dealing with the affairs of the Corps in an
administrative capacity. So, I think that was, to me, was the first, and I think one of the
biggest things. It took a little doing to get that done, overcoming the old syndrome of
"this is the way we've always done it," you had to fight through that. I think putting the
Corps first; I tried to enhance the status of the Corps within the college framework itself.
That sounds paradoxical because everybody loves The Citadel, loves cadets but it was not
always at the forefront of thinking. So I did try to push that, not only within the Citadel
family itself but to the outside world. The third was, I worked very hard at and I must say
I think it did some good, in getting The Citadel involved in the community. George
Seignious didn't care about that. It didn’t mean he ignored the community but he didn't
see there was any advantage to that. Well, I took an entirely different view of that. I felt
that this was a state institution. I felt we had a lot to offer. It had been in Charleston since
its founding in 1842 or whatever it was, and I felt we should promote ourselves in the
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12
community. Not just in Hampton Park right outside the gates here, but in all community
affairs: get the people [Corps] involved, faculty involved--worked hard at that. I think
those are my major contributions above the usual. I think I had a successful tenure but I
think these are the highlights.
JB: Tell me, what was the most difficult part of that job?
JG: (Pause) I think the most difficult part was dealing with the faculty, not dealing
with the faculty themselves, but faculty matters and keeping that in its perspective. I had
to continually remind myself and remind others that, first of all stripped of all rhetoric,
The Citadel is a liberal arts military college. A liberal arts college with all of that
connotes and I don't have to explain that to you. With the military side thrown in, the
major component of its makeup, of its raison d’être or whatever you want to say, so I
think the most difficult part was keeping that in the forefront and reminding not only
ourselves here but also within the community itself. I think we did a pretty good job at it.
JB: Was there any kind of internal reorganization during that period on the
academic side?
JG: None. None significant to my knowledge. As I recall, no, the academic
departments were--I think one new one was created; I'm trying to think whether it was-I'm trying to recall--there was one additional department created during my time but I'm
afraid I've forgotten what it was. The academic dean and I, well I worked with two of
them; fine gents, both of them were dedicated professionals. One was a Citadel graduate
and one was not which to me was not important. The one who was not was as dedicated
to the principles of the college as his predecessor in the job. But, I met with them daily
because I counted on them to keep me informed as what was going on in the academic
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13
world. I felt I was responsible for what went on but at the same time, I didn't run the
academic side. I figured that was why I had a high paid vice president to do that, the
academic dean. So I think what I had to do, most of all to keep that in [perspective]; it
proved difficult at times to get done. But, we got it done.
JB: As a state institution, of course, The Citadel gets its appropriations by vote of
the legislature.
JG: Yes.
JB: And so, how much time did you spend dealing with legislators or legislative
relations?
JG: In the overall balance of time, not a lot of man hours but there were periods of
time, for example, during budget hearings I was responsible to go up [to Columbia] and
did, and do my appropriate staff backup. I was carrying the torch to make my case to the
General Assembly, to the Legislature, and to the appropriate committees thereof of who
we were, what we were and why we needed the money we did. I explained to them why
each year I asked for a jump and why was that when the strength of the Corps remained
roughly the same. But, I had to make sure that I painted the picture of what was going on
down here, what we were producing with our programs and all. I've always felt we got
our fair share out of the budget pie but it was a time when I had to keep my fingers on a
lot of things just to make sure that the legislators knew what was going on. I dealt mostly
with the local delegation of legislators from the Charleston area as points of contact. I
was in Columbia not only with the legislature but with the Commission for Higher
Education which was a creature established during the time I was at The Citadel, which
monitors all of the activities of all the academic institutions, that is, the college
�James A. Grimsley
14
institutions. I spent as much time with them as I did with the elected legislature. So I was
in Columbia two or three times a month at least, maybe more depending on what was
going on.
JB: Looking back on that experience, did you find that it was advantageous for
you being a native of the state?
JG: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Being a Citadel graduate helped, too. To put it very simply,
there's not always advantages--I've said so many times--I know some, I can always recall,
one of the members of The Board of Visitors, The Board of Trustees but we called them
The Board of Visitors, came to me and had strictly a cornpone accent and he said "Alec,
so-and-so wants a job at The Citadel; now you know he's a good Citadel man and he's a
good man for the job." Well, I knew all the Board by their first names, so I said, "Well,
Buddy; I know who you're talking about." And I said, "If all of what you say is true about
him, I won't say this is--and I'm not referring to him when I make my statement." But I
said, "But I know some Citadel men I wouldn't give you a nickel for a room full of. Just
the fact that they're a Citadel graduate doesn't qualify them for sainthood." So I had to get
that point across as an indicator, then it had to go beyond that. In this particular case, he
was dead wrong. Well, the Board member was very taken back, I shook him a little bit
and he wasn't very happy which didn't bother me. But, I did have that dealing with the
Board.
JB: If it had not been for World War II and your experience during that war, do
you think you would have still been a career military man?
JG: I think it was--yes--I think it was from the times I told you when this uncle of
mine had those riding boots and the riding britches or trousers and the Sam Browne belt;
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15
I took it as a signal light. But even so I think it was something in--I can recall I've got
some little pictures at home where I had a little soldier suit my father gave me--he was a
World War I veteran--a little soldier suit, I had a little flag on a little piece of stick.
Always instinctively, I had this. Just as an aside, I have two sons and a daughter. All
three are very successful, I'm very proud of my children. The oldest son, a Citadel
graduate, went in the regular army and deep down, which I didn't really know, always
wanted to be a lawyer. Five years in the army, James said he was going to get out of the
army and go to law school. I said, "Don't you want to be an army lawyer?" He said, "No.
I'm either in the army or not. I don't want to be in the army as a lawyer." So he did. He
went to law school, has his own law firm down in Beaufort. Number two son came along
some years later, eleven years later to be exact, from number one boy, with a sister inbetween. He went to Davidson College. He said he wanted to go somewhere where the
name "Grimsley" is not known. So I said, "Fine." So he went to Davidson College, which
is a fine institution. Of course, he picked one of the most expensive ones to go to
(Laughter). I said, "Wherever you're going, you are going to ROTC" and he said, "Yes,
sir." He said, "That doesn't mean I'm going in the army." I said, "I didn't say you're going
in the army but you're going to the ROTC." So he did and the next thing I know, lo and
behold, he graduated and immediately applied for a regular army commission; one under
a graduate program and was awarded a regular army commission and now he's my
general officer in Iraq. That just shows how things turn out for--. But, I think,
instinctively in my younger son there was always this thing--I could tell, I always said he
was going to be my little soldier. I could tell just by his makeup and actions although I
didn't influence him, my goodness, I assure you I didn't have to. So, there's something
�James A. Grimsley
16
instinctive about it; I guess in all professions; some youngsters want to be doctors all
along and they are.
JB: General Grimsley, what questions have I not asked you?
JG: (Pause) Well, you could ask me saying, "Reflecting, looking back, if you had
a running movie here of scenes of going back fifty years or however many years it is,
would I do again?" Yes, I would do it exactly the same all over again. The one thing I
probably would not have done again, is gotten out. I've often said I lost two years during
that period. I lost seniority and at the same time, the advantages--I got the civilian bit out
of my system. I tried it, didn't like it. I got that out of my system so--because I can
counsel very much--I can recall numerous occasions when young officers would come to
me, "Sir, I'm unhappy. I just think I want to get out." I said, "Now, wait a minute. Let's
talk about it. Here's when you get out and here's what's going to happen. That grass is not
all that green in a different world. Just think through on this thing." I could advise them
on getting out was not a panacea for their--if a youngster was a good officer and I knew
that he was it might have been that his wife was unhappy in the service and he was trying
to see about getting out and maybe still wanted to stay in. I could speak from experience
that getting out didn't solve his problem so I guess that was a plus. Except for that
advantage, I think if I had to do it all over again, I'd do exactly what I did except I
probably would not have gotten out. I would have stayed in; knowing what I know now,
of course.
JB: So you think you may have taken another assignment in December,
November rather, of 1945.
JG: I could have, yes (Laughter). That's right. Because we eventually ended up
�James A. Grimsley
17
there anyway, you see.
JB: Right. General Grimsley, I feel we haven't really covered it in one sense but,
in another sense, I think we've covered the highlights because one, you have such an
organized mind and get right down and focus on situations. But any stories, particularly
the time when you were at The Citadel as an undergraduate that you recall that impacted
you during your subsequent career.
JG: (Pause) Oh, I think so. I think having made a mistake or two or three during
my cadet time I had a successful career at The Citadel. I ended up as a company
commander and that was fine with me. I was very happy with that. My senior year, I
came close to being busted, reduced in rank to use a proper term. My classmates, senior
classmates, the regimental commander [Alvah Chapman] and [my battalion commander]
George Seignious, and a third one, Fritz Hollings who was a graduate and a classmate.
Three of them came to my rescue with the administration and the Commandant so instead
of being busted or reduced in rank and walking tours, I sat in the barracks for six weeks
serving confinements through the most beautiful part in Charleston, the spring of the
year: April, May. My friends were all on the beach chasing girls and I was in there sitting
up in my room on weekends fussing at myself. But that experience, though, was very
helpful and I didn't know it at the time, in my subsequent active duty days when I had
run-ins with superiors and thought I was right. Whether I was right or wrong, it didn't
matter. You know who's going to win those battles. I had to take my licks in and got
chewed out properly and I did the proper thing. I said, "Yes sir." and "No, sir." and just
took it. So I think my Citadel experience helped me in that; that's the kind of experiences
you don't want to have but I'm an optimist by nature so I always looked at the bright side
�James A. Grimsley
18
of things, so maybe it did help.
JB: Did you find that you were treated differently when you went on active duty
as a Citadel graduate. I know you've talked about how, you know, a lot of these fellow
officers in those initial months had come out of non-military school ROTC units.
JG: Yes. OCS. They came through OCS and all that. Yes, I had to be careful. If
people knew I was a Citadel graduate every now and then I'd get a commander who
would rather sarcastically remark "Citadel playboys from Charleston and your fancy
uniforms" or some comment like that. We just took it and listened. I didn't run into that
too much. Occasionally that negative side would come out depending on who the
individual was making the comments. By and large though, when somebody learned I
was from The Citadel, particularly in the earlier days, I felt was given assignments based
on the fact that this needs some organization or we've got to get this done, let's see what
Grimsley can do with it. I think I got some assignments, not assignments of the job, but
given tasks to fulfill based on that. I think The Citadel imprimatur helped in that regard.
JB: Is there anything else we haven't covered?
JG: No, I don't think so. You've been pretty exhaustive here (Laughter).
JB: Well, you've been a good subject to interview, General Grimsley. So I just
want to thank you very much.
JG: Well, I thank you, sir, for your time. I appreciate it.
END OF INTERVIEW
Tammy Davis, October 11, 2008
SDK, October 17, 2008; February 24, 2009
�James A. Grimsley
JB, October 20, 2008; March 4, 2009
JG, November 28, 2008
KT, December 15, 2008
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James A. Grimsley
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Major General James Alexander Grimsley was born in 1921 in Florence, South Carolina. After graduating from The Citadel in 1942 he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. He served for thirty-three years and finished his Army career as the Director of Security Assistance Plans and Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Among his thirty-five major decorations are Two Silver Star medals for gallantry in Action; four Bronze Star medals for Valor; four Legion of Merit awards; and three Purple Heart medals. In September 1975, Grimsley accepted the position of Vice President of Administration and Finance at The Citadel and five years later was named the 16th President of the military college. Upon retiring in 1989, the Board of Visitors named him President Emeritus, a position held only by Generals Charles P. Summerall and Mark W. Clark. Grimsley, reflects on his decision to attend The Citadel and his combat experiences in Vietnam. He also discusses several of his major achievements as Citadel President. On transitioning from the Army to The Citadel, Grimsley observes that “it was made easier for me coming to The Citadel because it was a military college so there was a structure here that I understood. They just wore cadet uniforms and not army uniforms.” In an April 4-6, 2000 interview, a transcript of which is at the Citadel Archives and Museum, Grimsley detailed his active duty service during WWII.
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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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[Page 1]<br />Camp at Church Bridge Johns Island<br />Thursday Night Dec 19th 1861<br /><br />My Precious Lottie – I wrote you a hurried note this morning giving you somewhat of an account of Col. Branch retreat from Rockville, but I'll give you here more of the particulars. The Regiment which numbered scarcely 300, were on dress parade when the firing reported. Our camp was about a ¼ of a mile this side of Rockville, on the road that leads up to this bridge, & a picked guard was kept at the village, one sentinel being posted in a tower of one of the houses: a position which commanded the view of the Edisto River, from its mouth to Wadmalaw River. If you look on the map in the Hall, you will see that Rockville is situated on a creek that runs in from Edisto and around Wadmalaw Island, &<br /><br />[Page 2]<br />with Church Creek, which runs in from Wadmalaw River, cuts off Wadmalaw Island from Johns Island. The former of these creeks is called Bohicket, & for several miles from the Edisto is deep & navigable to gunboats & transports. So also is Church Creek, & the Wadmalaw River, so that you see the enemy can completely surround Wadamalaw Island, & to hold it, with light troops, when the enemy threatens to attack would be foolish, because of his ability to land his troops at opposite points, & attack the force on the Island from front and rear. But this refers to the enemy as meaning to attack, & not to his reconnoitering parties. Now our regiment went to Rockville as a corps of observation - to watch the enemy, and to whip him, if we get the chance. When Branch received<br /><br />[Page 3]<br />the report of the picket, that the gun boats had entered the mouth of the River, and saw them himself, firing into Clark’s Island & landwards, he at once took it for granted that they knew all about his camp, meant to shell his men out & <span style="text-decoration:underline;">in half an hour</span> <del>before he</del> after the first alarm was given, & while the boats were firing into - Seabrooks Island & the abandoned forts on Clarks Island, the Colonel ordered the men to fall in without knapsacks, leaving their tents standing, & marched them four miles up the road! Subsequently he sent back the wagons, which brought off about ⅔ of the knap sacks & company property, ⅔ of the tents & the ammunition, & a very small part of the commissary stores. When I joined the regiment, as I told you, else where, I found them at this a point four miles from Rockville &<br /><br />[Page 4]<br />about to move on here. The Colonel told me that the reason he ordered the retreats was because he was afraid the enemy would cut the regiment off by sending up boats to Bear’s Bluff, (see the map just where Wadmalaw & Edisto rivers join) & also up the Bohicket, who would land troops &c. It seems to me that a man with half of a head would have known better & acted more wisely. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">This is the enemy’s first visit to North Edisto.</span> He is gradually exploring the rivers & the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">very fact</span> of his firing into the deserted dismantled fort on Clarks Island, showed that he did not know that it was deserted, when it has been so since Port Royal fell. As our camp was exposed to view from the river it would have been well to have moved it back, out of sight, shielded by trees, & kept the men where they were until the enemy <span style="text-decoration:underline;">did land</span>, & then, if his<br /><br />[Page 5]<br />numbers were not too great for us, attack him, but the retreat was made purely on the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">sight</span> of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">those gunboats</span>, & the regiment dispersed. Of course, the Yankees felt their way & the negroes told their small advanced scouting boats that we had run & they went up the Bohicket to the Rockville Wharf, landed & took our knap sacks & tents, gave the negroes the stores, & [illegible] went off! Gadsen with a detachment has gone down today to see what is there, if anything. The morning after the Regiment left, Lieutenants Sinclair & [illegible] went all through our old camp & brought away what they could. The Yankees did not land until later in the day in what force, the “corps of observation” can say as they by that time were at Church Creek . Of course Branch <span style="text-decoration:underline;">meant</span> it all for the best, but he played the mis-<br /><br />[Page 6]<br />chief, as you must seem providing another instance of the Carolinians running <span style="text-decoration:underline;">at the sight</span> of the enemy. I thank god I was not there, though I expect to get my share of the shame. So much for the childish retreat, with this remark added, that the men were keen to do their duty. I am resolved as soon the regiment decided whether they will volunteer, or not which will be on next Wednesday, to resign in the latter case & join the Clem Stevens. I may have a day or two & if so my most cherished one, it shall be with you. I have not heard from the bundle yet, darling, & am sorry that the work of your precious fingers should not be mine. Don’t send any more bundles, however, until you either see me, or hear from me. Kiss my dear little boy, & my dear wife, for your-<br /><br />[Page 7]<br />self, you have all my heart. I trust, darling that you are well though you do not say one word about <span style="text-decoration:underline;">your</span> health, more precious to me than all the world beside. Don’t answer this letter, as I may see you before you have an opportunity to write. You will get this on Sunday & I may be at Cherry Grove on Wednesday. I don’t expect to stay longer than day & night, as I will have to hurry on & join Stevens in the city, in the work of raising & organizing his regiment. Good night my darling, & may God bless you.<br />Ellison
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Capers writes to his wife Lottie from Johns Island, and gives a more detailed account of the retreat that he described in his previous letter from that morning. He writes that Colonel Branch ordered his men to retreat without their belongings, but then sent the wagons back to collect some items that had been abandoned. Branch told Capers that he ordered the retreat because he was afraid the enemy would cut off their regiment, but Capers writes that Branch should have waited and attacked the enemy instead. Capers describes the retreat as "childish" and says he will resign and join Stevens. He says that he hopes to see Lottie soon, and asks her not to send any more packages until she either sees or hears from him again.
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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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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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[Page 1]<br />Camp Evans Church Bridge John’s Island<br />Dec 23rd<br /><br />My precious wife - I wrote you this morning a hurried note from the Citadel to be carried by Sinclair. You may be now reading it, my darling, and as I am thinking of you, I know that you too are thinking of your Ellie. When I got here, about an hour ago, Gadsen handed me two letters; one from you & one from Henry. Your letter, my darling, was written on last Monday & Tuesday, & directed to the care of Hamilton & Smith. Like you I can not imagine where your letters are, for this is the 5th that I have read & I ought to have got 8. I will ask at the P. O. as you suggest, but 289 is the box that Courtney told me to direct to. 398 is the Citadel Box. After you receive this you need not write me again until I see you, as the regt. Will be relieved this week, & I may not be either here, or in the city, as I cant tell where Col. Stevens’ Regt. will be stationed. Tell Frank<br /><br />[Page 2]<br />that Stevens has filled up all his places but the ast. Quartermastership & he has the refusal of it. He might trade it, & when some better chance offered, he could be resign. Thank you darling, for the sweet picture of our dear little boy, sitting in his sister’s chair. I could see him by the light of my heart as I read the precious lines of his mother, I am rejoiced to know that you are still free to hold him in your heart. May God continue to bless your work. Thank you, my Lottie, for the socks; they will be highly valued by me. But what, darling, do you mean about Sister Lize & the letter? I only mentioned that I had heard through a letter from you of uncle Peter’s confirmation, but I am sure that I never let <span style="text-decoration:underline;">[illegible] read a line</span>. And now, my dear wife, let me tell you how glad my heart was made by the letter through Major White. Twas a [illegible word crossed out] horrid idea, darling, to think for a moment that you did not think me<br /><br />[Page 3]<br />all I wanted you to, but it seized my heart, & I could not help telling you so. And you must not think that I do not wish you to tell me of my faults, for I earnestly desire it, but it seemed to me that you seemed to despond at my short comings, & while I did not give your very words, those I used conveyed the idea that I had formed. Never mind, my angel wife, I am as sure of your deep & dear devotion, as I am of a heaven, & you shall <span style="text-decoration:underline;">never hear one word of doubt again</span>. As I rode up from the city today, my mind revolved around the period of your trial, in out engagement, & when I reflected upon the vestal purity & the faithful devotion of your constant love, I, too shed tears, that I had written that letter to you. If I should not be able to go up on Saturday, I will let you know in time , but you had better not send for me, as I may not get the opportunity to write. There is scarcely any calculating or arrangements outside of<br /><br />[Page 4]<br />the military. Oh! How galling is it to me to see the Rifle Rgt. of last winter, now received in the very face of our enemies, and because of <del>their</del> the demoralized state into which the sad blunder of Branch has placed it. The men, of course, will go into other organizations; some of them with me, but they will not move one peg under our unfortunate Colonel. And yet the world does not know that the Regt. is relieved from duty here that is may organize for more effectual service. My heart grows sick when I think of it. Poor Branch is ruined, & the fair name of the Regt. blasted, and yet not one man whom I met, who did not seem to crave for a conflict with his foe, & the march from Rockville was as sullen as stone. So thoroughly are the men opposed any further action under Col. Branch, that they insist upon the mortifying alternative of being disbanded. More of all this when I see you. Love to all. Goodbye, & may God bless you, my precious wife.<br /><br />Ellison
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, December 23, 1861
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Capers writes to his wife Lottie from Camp Evans on Johns Island, South Carolina. He wonders where her letters are, as he should have received more than he did. He thanks Lottie for a picture she sent of their son, and assures her that he knows of her love and devotion to him. Capers writes of Colonel Branch, who was relieved from duty, and the demoralization of the men as a consequence to Branch's actions.
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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
Date
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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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application/pdf
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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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Text
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Citadel Class of 1857
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[Page 1]
Tuesday Night in
Camp Gist - Near Charleston
Jany 21st 1862
My own precious wife -
After a wearysome day & before I lay me down to sleep, I will begin a letter to you. I wrote you a note by Lee, just before I left Tady’s Monday morning, & have been so constantly busy since that I had not had the time to write you by today’s mail. Think of it, my precious I have near five hundred men, encamped here, & every one, nearly perfectly ignorant of military duties! Captains, Lieutenants, & Privates all to be taught, & I am perfectly alone. I have not a single aid. Dick & Hemingway will not take the Drill Officer place, & Clarence would be glad to take it, but he is afraid they will not let him off in Va. I have written to
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Genl. Gist in his behalf & hope to have him with me. I can’t give Holly the Qrs. Master Seargeantship for not being a commissioned officer he could not get a discharge. Tonight I am the only person in the field & staff line of tents & to save, me, I can’t help feeling lonely. While I write this, ¼ to 10--by my watch, I hear something which sounds to me like very heavy cannonading in the direction of Savannah. If it is, they take a strange time to begin, though it may be thunder as it is now raining. I am very tired, my darling, so good night till tomorrow, & may god bless you & Frank, & angels watch you while you sleep.
Ellie.
Wednesday Morning -10A.M.
My own Lottie - I rose
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this morning, & have been busy since. I have an officers drill at ¼ before 7 & again at 2 - and a dress parade at sunset & have to supervise every other drill & everything. The work before me is so great, & I have no one to help me that it makes me feel quite blue. Gendron has not called by as he said he would. I put my trust in God, darling, & hope for the time when we will be again united to each other. If you were only in the city, you could ride out and see me every day. We hear this morning that there are an unusual number of vessels off our Bar. May God deliver us. In the language of the first verse of the Psalter, for this morning, “He is gracious, and his mercy endureth forever” Good bye, my
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angel, & may you & Frank be always blessed. Love to mamma.
Forever yours
Ellison
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Letter from Ellison Capers to his wife Lottie, January 21, 1862
Subject
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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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1862-01-21
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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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application/pdf
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English
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Text
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https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/21
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Capers writes to Lottie from Camp Gist, South Carolina. He says that he is weary, and is camped with nearly five hundred men with no military knowledge. He writes that he is feeling lonely, and doesn't know whether he hears cannons or thunder from the direction of Savannah. Capers writes again in the morning, and says that the work before him is great.
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A1961.1, Box 2, Folder 14
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Ellison Capers Collection
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1860-1869
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Citadel Class of 1857