increasingly, lieutenant colonel fremantle became possessed of a desire to get to the confederate capital, richmond, and from there attempt to locate the army of northern virginia, with whom he intended to journey for a while. from tennessee, he travelled through augusta and atlanta, before arriving in charleston, south carolina, the birthplace of the war, on 8 june. the english tourist was keen to inspect the defences of the city, and remained there until 15 june, inspecting fort sumter and visiting morris island in the company of general roswell s. ripley, commander of south carolina's first military district. during this stay, fremantle also met general pgt beauregard, and a member of captain raphael semmes' crew from the css "sumter", whom fremantle had first met in gibraltar in 1862.