new body of men in the works.

"The garrison was estimated at one thousand seven hundred
aggregate. The staff of General Taliaferro consisted of
Captain Twiggs, Quartermaster General; Captain W. T.
Taliaferro, Adjutant General; Lieutenants H. C. Cunningham
and Magyck, Ordnance Officers; Lieutenants Meade and Stoney,
Aides-de-Camp; Major Holcombe; Captain Burke, Quartermaster,
and Habersham, Surgeon-in-Chief; Private Stockman, of
McEnery's Louisiana Battalion, who had been detailed as
clerk because of his incapacity for other duty, from most
honorable wounds, acted also in capacity of aid.

"The Charleston Battalion was assigned to that part of the
work which extended from the Sally port or Lighthouse Inlet
creek around to the left until it occupied part of the face
to the south, including the western bastion; the Fifty-first
North Carolina connected with these troops on the left and
extended to the southeast bastion; the rest of the work was
to be occupied by the Thirty-first North Carolina Regiment,
and a small force from that regiment was detailed as a
reserve, and two companies of the Charleston Battalion were
to occupy outside of the fort the covered way spoken of and
some sand-hills by the seashore; the artillery was
distributed among the several gun-chambers and the light
pieces posted on a traverse outside so as to sweep to sea
face and the right approach. The positions to be occupied
were well known to every officer and man and had been
verified repeatedly by day and night, so there was no fear
of confusion, mistake or delay in the event of an assault.
The troops of course were not ordered to these positions
when at 6 o'clock it was evident a furious bombardment was
impending, but, on the contrary, to the shelter of the
bomb-proofs, sand-hills and parapet; a few sentinels or
videttes were detailed and the gun detachments only ordered
to their pieces.

"The Charleston Battalion preferred the freer air of the
open work to the stifling atmosphere of the bomb-proofs and
were permitted to shelter themselves under the parapet and
traverses. Not one of that heroic band entered the opening
of a bomb-proof during that frightful day. The immense
superiority of the enemy's artillery was well understood and
appreciat