iv INTRODUCTION. 



these pages were penned. In the touching and 

 beautiful eulogy on the late General Elliott, ad- 

 dressed by the Hon. W. H. Trescott to the legislature 

 of South Carolina, the writer of the following work 

 is described as " one of many and varied accom- 

 plishments for many years a member of the State 

 Senate the companion of Pettigru and Gray son in 

 the hours of lettered leisure the hero of many a 

 woodland chase and the model of every Beaufort 

 boy who for the first time waded into the surf at 

 Bay Point, to throw his line for Bass, or saw with 

 trembling eagerness the great wings of the Devil 

 Fish flash on the broad waters of Port Royal." 

 Such was William Elliott, a member of one of those 

 Southern families that formed the nobility of Ame- 

 rica. 



General Elliott, the heroic and glorious defender 

 of Fort Suniter ; Bishop Elliott, known in Europe as 

 well as America, and beloved and revered wherever 

 known; William Elliott, the buoyant spirit of 

 these pages no one of them survives his country's 

 fall. The cordial and graceful hospitality of other 

 days ; the bold spirit tempered by refinement ; the 



