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FRIDAY, JVL1 IT, 1S63. |
Capl. Tlioiiia* J. Warren. I
Fell, in one of the bloody battles recently H
fought in Pennsylvania, Captain Thomas J.i
Warren, of Company UD," 15th Regiment! 1
S. C. V., in the 39th year of his age. Wo feel I
that we only give utterance to the universal! i
sentiment of the community, when we expressSi
the profound grief with which we malce thisK
announcement. t i
A native of the town of Camden, Capt. |
Warren passed here his youth and the brief |
years of his manhood. Too well and favoraKlit
I'MAivn f a n o 1- n n it aiv1a<?iii
uij aiivu ii iv aoiv rtujr vuiv^iu iij ill l^lil
we yet would offer a slight tribute to the dc-H
voted patrfot, the upright citizen, tha pure and?
zealous christian. For, not without consolation jl
to themselves can his friends recall the inci-9
dents of his life; not without advantage toll
others, make them known. ll
He was thrown early in life upon liisjfj
own resources; with fine natural abilities,!
but with comparatively small advantages from!
early education?the ordinary English branches!
being all for which he was indebted to the!
schools. But with a noble - ambition, resolute!
will and unswerving probity, he set about toE
become the architect of his own fortune. Aw*
fortune which if it did not embrace great wealth?,
or honors, yet secured for him the confidenceS;
and respect of all, and an influence thro ugh on tja
the District at once extensive and enviable.
Since 1845 he has been connected with tliey
"Camden Journalfor the greater part of then
period as its editor and proprietor, and he al-gj
ways endeavored, with all his power, to wieldn
the influence of his position for the public good.E
Mr.
jli v uivnouivo aiivv/iiu^ bUU j;iU3j/UI IIV ilUU ^ CI'
fare of our town ever wanted an ardent advo-l
eatc, when his voice could be heard. NoB
South Carolinian gloried more in the proudR
history and position of his State, or strove
more earnestly to maintain and elevate it, than
he did. No onb felt more keenly, or resented
more warmly every aggression of Federal upon
State authority than he whom we mourn today.
As a consequence his was one of the
earliest voices that greeted the banner of secession;
and following up his words by his actions
he raised a company,, nearly two years ago, and
engaged actively in the strife, from the attack
on Port Royal to the battle of Gettysburg,
where he fell. *
At various times he was called upon to fill
offices of honor and trust, both municipal and
district, which he performed with credit to himself
and with advantage to those whom he
served.
A useful citizen, a devoted patriot,?he was
more: he was a pure and upright Christian;
and while as a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, he was warmly attached to theH
forms of worship and government of that or-H
ganizatior., his heart, unhampered by any tingcB
of sectarian birrotrv. was lame anonnrb t.n ^nm-l
o J 1 O" a~ "" "
prehend in its love all that was pure and noble
and good, let it emcnatc from whence it might.
In the benevolent and charitable movements of
the day, among others the great temperance
reform, he was an ever active and untiring
laborer.
Characterized by an ardent earnestness, he
did whatever his hands fouDd to do with his
whole might. Cut off in the very prime of
manhood, and in the very midst of usefulness,
he has left a character and a history fraught
with lessons of hope and encouragement to
others. All will bear testimony to the fact,
that in his case, fell that "honest man," which
is "the noblest work of God." Peace to his
ashes! And may that cause already watered
by the blood of thousands?still further enhanced
by his?soon repay in brightness and!
in hope the terrible price which we arc lavish-1
ing for it. |
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death of Capt. J. P. Cunningham.'
We are pained to announce the death of
Capt. Joseph P. Cunningham, of Company
?, ]5th Regiment S. C. V, who was killed in
one of the battles near Gettysburg. Cupt.
Cunningham was a native and resident ol Libarty
Hill, in this District?a young man of fine
talents and amiable disposition.
Day by day wc are called upon to chronicle
the death of those whom tho community can
II afford to spare. The State has lost in this
:ase a valuable and effective officer, and a
largo circle of friends mourn the urftiraely loss
[>f one whose place can jicver be supplied.
Attack on Seccisionvlilc.
The Yankees attacked our forces at Seccsjionville
yesterday morning, and were repulsed
ttnd driven back.
Just as we were going to pre>s we were kindly
furnished with a complete rollof the company,
officers and men, organized in the 22d Regiment
S. C. M., on the 7th inst., under the late
call of the Governor, for troops for local defence
and special service. It will appear in
our next.
Card of I'll auks.
AVe are desired, by Mrs. Rews, to state thati
owing to her iate severe illness and present affliction,
she will not be able nersonallv to f:ilcn
farewell of her friends and patrons. She begs,
however, to acknowledge with heartfelt grati-j
tilde the numerous acts of courtesy and kindness
she has received at their hands during her
sojourn in Camden.
Acknowledgement.
The Aid Association acknowledge the
prompt response of the citizens of Camden to
their call in behalf of the sick and wounded
soldiers in Charleston. A box of hospital
stores, containing rice, meal, hominy, sugar,
wines, syrup, vinegar, honey, dried fruit, sage,
vegetables, socks, towels, bandages, rags, lint,
&c.. was sent on Wednesday, to the Rev. Dr.
Bachman.
Concert Tor tlic Dcneflt of the Soldiers.
A good audience was assembled at the Town
Hall on last Wednesday evening, upon which
occasion an exhibition of Tableaux Yivantsj
and a conceit with dancing and recitation
were given for the benefit of the Ladies Aid
Association. The terpsichorian feats and living
statuary were very fine, and the singing
also. A repetition i? promised for to-night,
for the same charitable and deserving purpose,
and we hope that the attendance will be large.
Capt. W. Z. Lcilncr.
We have just received the painful intelligence
of Capt. Leitner's having beeu severely
wounded, causing the amputation of one of his
legs.
We also understand that fears are entertained
that Col. Kennedy's hand will have to be ?raputatcd,
caused from a wound received in the
battle of Gettysburg.
The Present Condition of Affairs.
Vicksburg has fallen, Lee has been compelled
from some eausp to retreat back upon
ITagerstown, Charleston is once more beleagured
by a heavy force, Braoo has given
up Tullahoma and made the Tennessee his line'
of defence, and Port Hudson has surrendered.
These facts constitute the cloud, which, for a]
time, throws a gloom over our whole country.
We have met with reverses and failed of that
general and grand success which our over sanguine
hope had anticipated. But there is no
ground for despondency, much less of despair.
The armies of Northern Virginia, of Tennessee
and Mississippi are tried and seasoned veterans,
commanded by officers of consummate
skill. Charleston still stands, and by the favor
of God will continue to stand, as we hope and
believe, and ere long tlic sun of success will illuminate
the grand circle of our arms. Tlicn
let us be of good cheer, and act in our several
capacities at home, with the hope, the constancy
and the cheerfulness which actuate our
brave soldiers in the field.
Consistent Humanity.?The Yankees, who
have been separating parents from their children,
and confining them in loathsome dungeons
ever since the beginning of the war, hold,
up their hands in horror at an unparalleled
attrocity which they solemnly assert some of
the Confederates hdVe committed in Pennsylvania?separating
cows from their calves!
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I Tile Attack ou Morris Island.
Daybreak yesterday witnessed the opening of
the second grand demonstration of the enemy
against the City of Charleston. At that hour,
the heavy andiriultiplied Yankee batteries on
Folly Island, which had been nnmasked on
Thursday, by the felling of the trees and the
removal of the dense foliage which had hid
them from view, opened a concentrated fire
upon the nine gun battery at the southern extremity,
of Morris Island, commanded by Capt,
J. C. Mitchell, 1st Regt. S. C. Artillery. Our
battery at once replied, and the cannonade that
ensued was one of fearful violence and rapidity.
The following official dispatches from Col.
Ithett, commanding at Fort Sumter, to Capt
Nance, brought to tlje city the first definite tidings
of what was going on :
Fout Sum:kr, 5 10 a. ra.
The enemy have just opened a heavy tire on
Captain Mitchell. A. Riiett* Col. Com'dg.
T? ? _ C? e en _
Irum oi'aitr, u uu a. in.
Monitors in motio*.. Think they are goftig
to crofcs the Bar.
A. Riiett, Col. Com'dg.
Fort Sumter, 5 50 a. ni.
Can sec distinctly barges already loaded with
inoii concealed behind Little Folly Island
Capt. King has counted fifteen.
A. Riiett, Col. Com'dg
Fort Sumter, 6 10 a. m.
Captain Mtiehel! is replying slowly from his
guns. Three Monitors have crossed the Bar,
and are moving up to Morris Island.
A. Riiett, Col Com'dg.
Ofiicial dispatches from Col. Simonton, at Secessionvjlle,
also announced threatening moveinents
of the enemy in the neighborhood of the
mouth of the Stono; but later intelligence showed
these movements to have been mere feints
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designed probably to divert our attention from
the real point of attack, Morris Island.
The accounts which we gather of the fighting
at Morris Island are, yet nccesserllv meagre
and unsatisfactory. It seems that after more
than three hours' incessant bombardment of
Capt. Mitchell's position, the enemy landed
in* barges at Oyster Point, and advanced so as
to flank our battery on the right. The infantry
supports for the battery were driven back,
and Capt. Mitchel and his artillerist found
themselves nearly cut off from the main body
of our forces. They bravely stood to their
guns, however, up to the time that the enemy
had actually gained their position and then
those of the gallant gu,nners who were still unhurt
retreated, fighting as they retired, along
the sands hills towards Battery Wagner, whither
their infantry supports had preceded them.
The enemy having thus gained a foothold
upon the Island, lost no time in moving to
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ntiiua Tf ilglld, WUIVI1 IS llSUOIlir WOIK
constructed particularly for defence against a
land attack, and running across the island some
distance this side of the battery which had been
abandoned. The enemy's infantry, supported
by their artillery and by the monitors, which
had now coine within easy range, made several
distinct attempts to carry our works by assault;
but each time they were handsomely repulsed;
and finally retired to seek shelter and rest
I among the sand hills at the southern extremity
of the Island.
But the check which the yankee infantry
had received did not dismay their artillerymen
or gunboats; and all day long the hoarse thunder
of their ordnance, answered by the spirited
fire of our own guns from various points, including
Fort Sumter, reverberated in the city
and long the coast. At last accounts Battery
Wagner was, in every material respect, uninjured.
Of the enemy losses in the action we have
nA account. Our own are estimated at about
300? killed, wounded and missing.?Mercury,
nth.
Saturday's Fight.
FROM MORRIS ISLAND BLOODY REPULSE OF
THE ENEMY FROM BATTERY WAGNER.
Before the papers of our ]ast issue had
reached the eyes of our readers, another bloody
and important action had taken place upon
Morris Island.
The enemy evidently did not, at first, feel
secure in his newly gained position. During
Thursday night (according to the statements
of prisoners) the Yankee forces were drawn up
in line of battle. At daybreak, finding that
the expected night attack would not be made,
it was determined amongst the Yankee leaders
themselves to attempt an onset upon Batt
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Wagner. Gen. Strong, with a force of about
2000 picked men, at once made preparation#
for the assault. His command consisted of four
companies of the 7th Conn., Lt. Col. Rodman
commanding, with the 76th Pennsylvania, Col.
Straw bridge, the 9th Maine, Col. Emery; the
48th and 100th New York, with tbo "Lost
Children/*1 an independent regiment. * ,
Forming his men into two lines, soon , after
dawn.on Saturday be advanced at the doublesquick
towards our work. Col. Graham, who
was in command at Battery Wagner, suffered
the enemy to get within about forty yards,
when he gave the word to "Fire!" and down
went the foremost rank of the assailants. Yet
on they came with spirit and resolution, some
of them even gaining the interior of the
work. But they paid dearly for their temerity.
Everywhere they were met with coolness and
determination by our men, who maintained
their firo steadily; and, after a sharp contest of
fiftcon minutes, the enemy's first line gave way
and fled in confusion. The second line retired
without any serious attempt to retrieve tho
fortunes of the first.
The day was won. In the melee we ^iad
taken 130 prisoners, and 95 of the enemy's
dead lay strewn immediately in front of our
works. An officer, who. had ventured some
distance beyond, states that the Yankee dead
were quite as numerous further off from our
works; so that it is within the bounds of moderation
to estimate the enemy's loss in killed ,
wounded ar.d missing at quite COO. Our own
loss was comparatively slight. Captain Werner,
of Savannah, with privates James Bryan,
E. Postell, A. Mallory, and J. A. Santina, of
tho 18th Ga. Battalion, with one or two others,
whose names we have not learned, were killed,
and a few others wounded.
The prisoners were brought to the city and
marched to jail. Their bearing was very impertinent.
They admitted the severe character
of their losses, and stated that General Strong1,,
with Lieutenant Col. lladman, of the 7th Conneticut,
had been badly wounded. It appears
from their statement that their regiments arc
very far from being full, many of the companies
having dwindled down to mere handfuls. Brigadier
General Seymour is on Morris Island,
and Major General Gilniore, who now succeeds
Hunter in the command of this Department, '
has his headquarters for the present on Folly
Island.
All day Saturday and Sunday the heavy
booming of the big guns from the harbor entrance
kept the community on the qui vive.
It was well understood that the enemy was
hard at work throwing up heavy works, and
the firing was chiefly our shelling the position
held by the enemy, though the fire was
returned at intervals from his Ireavy guns and
mortars. One shell from the Yankee lines exploded
yesterday, killing Privates Hawkins
and Daniels, of Captain Pearson's Company,
Nelson's Battalion, and wounding Capt. Pear
sons ond four others. We believe there was
no other casualty yesterday.
THE 8EVKNTH BATTALION S. C. CASUALTIES.
The following is the official list of casualties
in the Seventh S. C. Battalion, Maj. Riancom.
uianding:
CO. A CAPT. LUCAS COMMANDING
Killed?None.
Wounded?Sergeant Outlaw, Corporal McLaurin,
Isaac Mosely, John Pitts.
co. u.
Maurice Colic, (Orderly), prisoner in the
hands of the enemy.
CO.C?LIEUT, PEARSON COMMANDING.
Killed?None.
Wounded?P. Hawkins, severely and prisoner;
D. Outen, slfghtly; Sergeant E. Davis, severely.
Missing?Sergeant W. R. Mayrant, Hugh
Price.
co. d?capt. jones commanding.
Killed?II. Capcll, R. Gaskins.
Missing and Wounded?C. T. Billings, J.
W.Allen.
co. e?lieut. gailard commanding.
Killed?Private J. M. Ives.
Wounded?Privates J. P. Allen and W. H.
Cater.
Missing?None.
co. f?capt. seegaiis commanding.
Killed?None.
Wounded?B. W. Newman, A. McGougan
Missing?None.
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