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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4
Chapter 4:
The coast of South Carolina, summer of 1862
operations under General Pemberton
engagement at old Pocotaligo
campaign on James island
battle of Secessionville.
At the close of the spring of 1862, the Federal army in South Carolina, under General Hunter, had not made lodgment on the mainland.
The enemy's gunboats, commanding the waters surrounding the islands, made ineffectual attacks on several of the batteries on shore.
On May 29th, a small force under Colonel Christ, of the Fiftieth Pennsylvania regiment, a company of cavalry and one company of the Eighth Michigan regiment, crossing at Port Royal ferry, made an attack at Old Pocotaligo with a view of reaching and cutting the Charleston & Savannah railroad.
This force was met by the Rutledge mounted riflemen, Capt. W. L. Trenholm, and two companies, A and D, of the First battalion of South Carolina cavalry, the whole under Maj. J. H. Morgan.
A spirited engagement followed along the banks of Screven'
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5