Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-25

l.. ID. Goore, ). H. Mckinney, ). walsh,
Q. j. Gwinn, Il. N. McEIwee, G. K. Williams,
T. NJ. Gwinn,> J. E. McKnight IL: Wilson,
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w. G. Harrington, w. s. Moore ). E. Strain.
SATURDAY NIGHT, April 20, 1861
We went round Moultrieville, this after.
noon after drill, and saw the sights Of the
place-among the rest the concealed bat.
terry, the floating battery and Fort Moultrie
the first was built about one hundred yards
from Fort Moultrie, behind house which
was blown up before the battle. 1t did
good service, and received no serious injury.
The balls frequently did not bury them
selves more than foot or eighteen inches
in the embaukment of sand bags and Pal
metto logs. The floating battery seems to
have been an especial eye.sore to Maj. An
derson. 1t received Is shots in all; one
splintering a corner, another cutting clear
through the roofing and lodging in the
sand bags behind, and all the others making
but slight indentations in the sheet iron
and glaucing upward or downward according
to the place where they struck. The off.
GERS and soldiers quarters at Fort Moultrie
as we said this evening to yor-are COM.
pletely riddled with cannon balls; and that
nobody was killed, is certainly owing to a
gracious Providence. We counted some
twenty or twenty-five perforations, some Of
which extended through different rooms,
and tore up the ceiling, floors, chimueys,
&c, to fearful extent Perhaps you are
aware that the celebrated Indian Chief,
Oceola, was imprisoned in this glorious old
fortress at the close of the Florida war
He was imprisoned and died here. We
saw his grave. Asimple white slab lies over
his heroic dust, level with the ground, and
inscribed with only one word-"Oceola. u
The grass is growing green all around it,
and the grim walls of the fort rise fifteen OF
twenty feet in front. A fitting sepulchre.
Peaceful, we thought, is the sleep of the
brave.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 21st.-Rev. Mr..
Barnwell, who has accompanied the volun.
teers of the South Carolina College as their
pastor, preached to day in the diuing-room
of the Moultrie House. He had a large
audience, and we do not think that we have
ever before beheld an assemblage of such
fne-l looking young men. They may we'll
be classed with the flower cf South Carroll
ma chivalry. They consisted of the College
Cadets, and portion of the up.country
volunteers from Chester, York, Union and
Spartanburg. His subject was Moses song
of triumph and praise on the banks of the
Red Sea and was discussed with much ap-
propriateness, pathos and beauty. Our own
heart was made to glow and thrill with
gratitude to the God of Battles for the won
derful victory of Fort Sumter. These wa
ters will be thronged with visitors, as soon
as peace is restored, to see the interesting
sights toebe seen. We learn that the houses
of Moultrieville will remain "statu quo"
as far as may be, in order that the interest
may not be impaired. The quarters Of
Fort Moultrie, for more practical reasons,
are now under repair.
We may mention here, what would have
appropriately come in yesterdays letter,
that Rev. Mr.. Anderson of our town, gave
US some excellent and seasonable advice on
the night before we left Charleston. The
number of visitors to our camp at Columbia,
Charleston and here, from Yorkville, and
their high.toned liberality and geutlemanly
attentions to our volunteers, have become a
matter of remark, and are contributing
much to give our fellow citizens at home an
enviaLle name. Our lady friends who have
brothers or husbands or other "kith and
kin" amongst us, have sent US box after box
of provisions, until we live almost like
princes. Even our water is4aas the mark
ct reports say-fair-middling and with all
our drilling, marching, &C., we are living a
pleasant, a merry life.
Our boys remember the kindness of friends
at home by writing all day of Sundays, and
at other opportuue times. We, as Post Mas.
ter of the Jasper Light Infantry, will mail
upwards Of so letters in few minutes.
No sickness; and as long as the enemy
remain "afar off," and we stay here, our
camp will be all that heart could wish iD
point of comfort and convenience. When
the enemy comes, we will fight to the last
TO retain such comfortable quarters g.!
OUR CORPORAL. 4