Lt Col: [Isaac] Motte Recd Orders from Col: [William] Moultrie to hold himself in readiness to march with the two companies of Granadiers & Marions light Infantry. Orders being Sent to Capt [Thomas] Pinckney & Elliott to be in readiness with their companies, they were accordingly drawn up, with Capt Marions Light Infantry, & about Eleven OClk at Night March'd from the Barracks with all possible silence, to Gadsden Wharf where they embarked on board the Carolina & Georgia Packet, when they had set sail, Col Motte called the Officers down into the Cabin & informed them, that his Orders were to take possession of Fort Johnson, that tho' there were but few Men in Garrison there, he was informed a reinforcement had been' thrown in from the Tamar, that he should Order Lieut Mouat with a Detachmt from Cpt Pinckneys Granadiers, joined by the Cadets, as the forlorn hope; that they were to scale the Walls on the South Bastion, that he with Capt: Pi[n]ckneys Granadiers & Capt Marions Light Infantry should enter the Gates over the Ravelin, or force them, that Capt Elliott with his Granadiers, should enter into the lower Battery over the left flank. &c &c. this he order'd to be done with the greatest alertness & without the least noise; . . .