. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . whichtank after colliding with the Star ofthe Smith, sent to her assistance, andwhose crew was saved by the gunboatSfohieanj the Osceola and the Union,both of which went ashore, arid hadul] nn board made prisoners; and theGovernor, whose marines, underMajor John ((cargo lEoynolds, with thoexception of a corpora
. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . whichtank after colliding with the Star ofthe Smith, sent to her assistance, andwhose crew was saved by the gunboatSfohieanj the Osceola and the Union,both of which went ashore, arid hadul] nn board made prisoners; and theGovernor, whose marines, underMajor John ((cargo lEoynolds, with thoexception of a corporal and six men,ivoro paved by tho frigate Snbine, Cap-tain Ringgold., which happened to be»it!iin view of its signs of distress. Tlie scaled orders which h:id beengiven each vessel of tho expedition di-rected its rendezvous off Port Itoyalliar, whoro the Wttiash and many■ithers anchored ou the morning ofNovember 4th. .Additional arrivals fnllowed in were made under tho uniteddirection of Mr. liontollo, of tho CoastSurvey, and of Commander CharlesII. Davis, fleet captain and ehief ofllio commodores staff, and on the 5th»f November a reconnaissance of theonfedorate wurks was made in forceby Commander John Rodgors, of thoIhuj, uud by General Wright, with, the. PLAN OF FORT WALKER. *79 (brim, I. y. Sum, Olimct and Seneca. These bad not proceeded far np thechannel wnen thoy were met by foniConfedorato steamers, with which alively oxohango of tiro soon took place,they retreating as the Federal gunboatsadvanced toward the batteries on Hil-ton Head and at Hay Point opposite. When within range, the balteriuopened on tho Federals, ns was natur-ally oxpected, and another engagement<rf nearly an hour ensued, when tho ob-ject of the reconnoissnnce having beenaccomplished, llio gunbonle hauled off. It was decided to attack tho fortstho following day, but a high windhaving come up, this was found im-possible, and it was not until tho lib KoriMn^W, tnftt jt COlll(i be B*1*
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