The troops on James island and on the line of rail road, as reported April 30, 1862, present for duty, numbered 22,275, rank and file, stationed as follows: In the First district, Col. R. F. Graham, 1,254; Second district, Brigadier-General Ripley, 8,672; Third district, Brigadier-General Evans, 5,400; Fourth district, Col. P. H. Colquitt, 1,582; Fifth district, Col. P. H. Colquitt, 2,222; Sixth district, Brigadier-General Drayton, 3,145; total, 22,275.
The above statement includes infantry, artillery and cavalry. They were all South Carolina troops except Phillips Georgia legion (infantry), Thornton s Virginia battery, and a company of Georgia cavalry, under Capt. T. H. Johnson. Manigault’s Tenth volunteers and Moragnd’s Nineteenth, with the two Tennessee regiments under Brigadier-General Donelson, had been sent to Corinth to reinforce Beauregard in the west, and Dunovant’s Twelfth, Edwards Thirteenth, McGowan s Fourteenth (Col. James Jones having resigned), and Orr s rifles had gone to the aid of General Johnston in Virginia. Such was the situation in South Carolina at the close of April, 1862.
