. Young folk's history of the war for the union . shot me in the leg, sir, but I can go to the the cartridges right away. What is your name, and who are you? Orion P. Howe; I am drummer-boy of the Fifty-fifthIllinois. The shot were falling all round where they stood, for theywere within two hundred yards of the Confederate works, and 1863.] CALIBRE FIFTY-FO UR. 385 Sherman, fearing the boy would be hit again, told him to go tothe rear at once, saying he would attend to the limped away, but just before he disappeared over the hillhe paused, and shouted back as lou
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . shot me in the leg, sir, but I can go to the the cartridges right away. What is your name, and who are you? Orion P. Howe; I am drummer-boy of the Fifty-fifthIllinois. The shot were falling all round where they stood, for theywere within two hundred yards of the Confederate works, and 1863.] CALIBRE FIFTY-FO UR. 385 Sherman, fearing the boy would be hit again, told him to go tothe rear at once, saying he would attend to the limped away, but just before he disappeared over the hillhe paused, and shouted back as loud as he could: Calibre 54! By this he meant that the cartridges should be of that size,as the calibre or bore of the guns for which they were wantedwas 54. The General was much pleased that the brave )joy,though suffering from a bad wound, and exposed to a hot mus-ketry fire, which was apt to make strong men lose their presenceof mind, should have remembered all the important parts of hismessage. He recommended him to the care of the government,. Caves near Vicksburg. and Orion was soon after appointed a cadet in the NavalAcademy. General Grant now began a regular siege. He had receivedreinforcements, and had about seventy thousand men. Heplanted heavy guns on every hill around, from which shot andshell were thrown into the city day and night. Porters gun-boats and mortar boats aided from the river, firing immenseshells, which burst in all parts of the works. The Confederatebatteries replied, and the incessant booming of the heavy gunsand the howling of the shells made day and night part of the city was safe, the shells often exj^loding in thestreets or crashing through the houses. Many of the streets ofVicksburg are cut through hills, on the tops of which are houses,high above the street. In the clay banks formed by cutting 886 viCKSBuna. [ises. these streets many caves were dug by both soldiers and citizensin the beginning of the siege, and many families sought she
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