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    Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, Charleston Harbor, in 1863 An address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society, March 3, 1879
    Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, Charleston Harbor, in 1863 An address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society, March 3, 1879
    Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, Charleston Harbor, in 1863 An address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society, March 3, 1879
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    Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, Charleston Harbor, in 1863 An address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society, March 3, 1879

    By Charles H. Olmstead

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    Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, Charleston Harbor, in 1863 An address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society, March 3, 1879

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      Title: Reminiscences of Service with the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, Charleston Harbor, in 1863

      An address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society,

      March 3, 1879

      Author: Charles H. Olmstead

      Release Date: December 4, 2010 [EBook #34566]

      Language: English

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      REMINISCENCES OF SERVICE

      WITH THE

      FIRST VOLUNTEER REGIMENT

      OF GEORGIA,

      Charleston Harbor, in 1863.

      AN ADDRESS

      DELIVERED BEFORE THE

      GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

      MARCH 3, 1879.

      BY COLONEL CHARLES H. OLMSTEAD.

      SAVANNAH, GA.:

      PRINTED AND PRESENTED BY J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR MORNING NEWS,

      1879.

      Annals of the War.

      In preparing the following paper, it has been my desire only to record what its title suggests—personal reminiscences.

      Leaving to other and abler pens the task of writing an accurate history of the scenes and events to which reference is now about to be made, I shall confine myself simply to the task of setting down such things as came under my personal observation, or within the scope of my individual knowledge.

      I do this the more confidently, remembering the marked interest that invariably attaches to the testimony of an eyewitness, and also bearing in mind (for my own comfort) that this interest will always incline his hearers to leniency in judging literary demerits. It is probable, too, that some of my old comrades will be pleased at this recurrence to an eventful period in their lives, while a younger generation in the ranks may be glad to have placed before them a record, not of the pomp and circumstance of glorious war, but of its privations, its hardships, its perils, and, it may be added, its lessons of self-abnegation and of devotion to duty.

      Early in the month of July, 1863, while stationed very comfortably at the Isle of Hope, a courier, spurring in hot haste, brought orders from Department headquarters that set our camp at once in a turmoil of eager and excited preparation. The 32d Georgia, Col. George P. Harrison, Jr., the 12th and 18th Georgia Battalions, Lieut.-Col. H. D. Capers and Major W. S. Basinger, and a battalion from the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, were ordered to proceed with the least possible delay to Savannah, there to take cars for Charleston.

      A private note at the same time brought the intelligence that that city, so long threatened, and, indeed, once already assailed by sea, was now to undergo a vigorous and combined attack from both land and naval forces. The day was an eventful one to us without this additional stimulant. In the morning we had received the sad news of the fall of Vicksburg and the consequent opening of the Mississippi river to the Federal fleet, from the mountains to the sea, a disaster that secured to the enemy the grand object of his most strenuous exertions, while it severed the young Confederacy in twain and deprived our armies east of the river of all the aid and comfort in the way of material supplies and gallant recruits, that had been

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