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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
at the mast-heads gave notice of their position, competting Col DeSaussure after a short time to fall back under a heavy fire to a less dangerous locality. Had the entrenched camp, with store houses and magasines, been made in time, several lives and large quantities of public property might have been saved. But it was impossible to have made this within the short time and with the diminutive force at my disposal; for on my arrival at headquarters in Beanfort, on the night of the 17th of October, the number of troops at camp Walker were but three hundred and sixty-two, afterwards increased on the 24th to six hundred and twenty-two, by the accession of four companies under Major Jones, of 12th regiment South Carolina voluntters. To this may be added the Engineer force of some sixty men, who, with the soldiers, worked incessatly day and night. As for evidence of what they accompished, the eight inch columblad, on the water front, was only mounted on the first of November, one ei