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was a freighter which had been converted to a gunboat and mounted four 32-pounder smoothbore cannon and was commanded by
Lieutenant James H. Gillis. The ship arrived near the Confederate battery of two 24-pounder guns in the late afternoon and exchanged artillery fire. Commander Du Pont reported that
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Captain Walter to the place. Two guns attempted to relieve the force at Pineberry but were too late. The remaining four guns set an ambush at a place called White Point. Two companies of infantry accompanied the guns at White Point. The Union forces continued on up the Pon Pon or South Edisto
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which was heavily effected by the war and well documented in
Grimball's diary. Early in the war, by June 1861, seventy slaves on the plantation had fled, and by May 1864, Grimball claimed that damage on the plantation had approached $ 20,000. Grimball returned to the plantation in 1866, but was
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November 1861 and in December 1861, escaped slaves began setting up their own refugee camps there. In January 1862, armed blacks from the island and Confederate forces clashed and a Confederate raid in reprisal killed a small number of unarmed
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Confederates continued fire from their field guns while the Hale traveled down the windy river, but fled when the ship came close. Rhind sent Gillis ashore with 22 men who spiked the guns, burned and destroyed the carriages, and captured the powder. The engagement lasted about four hours.
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from the island, which was one likely path for a land campaign against
Charleston. Among the actions, on March 18, Pineberry Battery opened fire on a Union Naval reconnaissance. The Pineberry Battery was on the Pineberry plantation on Edisto Island owned by John Berkeley Grimball.
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travelled up the North Edisto River to the Dawhoo River to attack a confederate
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