The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . 1-looking at the pictures of what mightbe well termed Confederate BullDogs, from whose mouths for twolong months belched forth shot andshell in the vain attempt to save itfrom capture. Nothing can be saidas to the identity of the officers and soldiers, whose figures are representedstanding around the guns. It isprobable that they belonged either tothe Forty-eighth New York, or theThird Rhode Island, as the latterorganization took a hand also in thereduction of the fort. One thing isnoticeable in connection with the me
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . 1-looking at the pictures of what mightbe well termed Confederate BullDogs, from whose mouths for twolong months belched forth shot andshell in the vain attempt to save itfrom capture. Nothing can be saidas to the identity of the officers and soldiers, whose figures are representedstanding around the guns. It isprobable that they belonged either tothe Forty-eighth New York, or theThird Rhode Island, as the latterorganization took a hand also in thereduction of the fort. One thing isnoticeable in connection with the men,and that is their youthful appearance,some of them being, seemingly, butmere boys. The Martello tower, which theartist did not neglect, was a structurefamiliar to the eyes of the soldiers £55. m mm £«!?* Marteflo Tower. 314 A DAWN PICTURE. stationed along the coast of Carolinaand Georgia during the war. Italways seemed to the writer to belongrightfully to another country and \ %? *=- #§>^%. ,r g*S i \Mn>0 <f-*t-- * v ^v ? . 1 fl§; V- t - . Capt. William J. Carlton. another race, and seemed out of placealtogether in prosaic America. Serving in the Forty-eighth withCaptain D. C. Knowles was a NewHampshire boy, Captain William :- who is a native of Cheshire county, but from boyhood a residentof New York. He was a member ofthe student company mentionedpreviously. This company earned afine record during its four years ser-vice, and was second to none in aregiment that could always be de-pended on in an emergency. TheForty-eighth was with our Seventhat Wagner, and great as the loss ofthe Seventh was in that fated charge,where it lost its heroic colonel, it wasexceeded by that of the Forty-eighth,which suffered terribly. Th
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