Report of Lieutenant Colonel Ellison Capers, Twenty-fourth South Carolina Infantry.
CAMP 24TH S. C. VOL. Regiment, ADVANCE FORCES,
James Island, S. C., June 10, 1862.
COLONEL: I have the honor to report the details of the recent engagement with the enemy's advance at Legare's place, below Secessionville, on the 3rd instant:
In obedience to your direction I left the camp before daylight with four companies of the Twenty-fourth, the Marion Rifles, Pee Dee Rifles, Evans Guard, and Colleton Guard, to remove the guns of Captain Chichester's battery, which were bogged in the marsh at the causeway below Rivers'. Arrived at Secessionville, it was reported to me by Colonel Lamar that our pickets had been driven in to Rivers' and that the guns were covered by the enemy. I reported this to the general, who ordered me to take my companies and drive him back until the fire of his boats obliged me to withdraw. I moved down to Rivers' and found the picket force, consisting of the Beauregard Light Infantry and the Charleston Riflemen, at that head of the causeway, facing Legare's; threw out the Marion Rifles, Captain Sigwald, as skirmishers, and ordered him to push on and draw the fire of the enemy. This was well and promptly done, the Marions soon occupying the pines and the enemy's skirmishers retiring. I crossed the causeway by flank and deployed on the other side, throwing my companies forward on the right, when we engaged the enemy warmly until, our fire becoming too severe, he fell back to the edge of the wood on this side of Legare's old field. . . .
OR V 14 p. 629
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C B. Sigwald
Enlisted on 11/1/1861 as a Captain.
On 11/1/1861 he was commissioned into "A" Co. SC 24th Infantry
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C. B. Sigwald’s Company, 24th Regiment Volunteers*
* This company was organized December 31, 1861, and was composed principally of men who had formelry served in Captain C. B. Sigwald’s Company (Marion Rifes) 16th Regiment South Carolina Militia, and it subsequently became Company A, 24th Regiment South Carolina Infantry.
M267: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina