. Field, fort and fleet; being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late civil war . New Hauipshire, Sixty-seventh Ohio and One HundredthNew Yorii. This column began to stumble over the dead bodies ofFederals before it had traversed half the distance to the fort, andwas likewise subject to such a front and enfilading fire as to almostdisorganize it. Sheer pluck carried it thi-ough to the fort, and des-peration held it there twenty-five minutes to be decimated. It stoodno more show to capture Wagner than one barge load of men wouldhave stood to capture
. Field, fort and fleet; being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late civil war . New Hauipshire, Sixty-seventh Ohio and One HundredthNew Yorii. This column began to stumble over the dead bodies ofFederals before it had traversed half the distance to the fort, andwas likewise subject to such a front and enfilading fire as to almostdisorganize it. Sheer pluck carried it thi-ough to the fort, and des-peration held it there twenty-five minutes to be decimated. It stoodno more show to capture Wagner than one barge load of men wouldhave stood to capture Sumter, but even though every man fullyrealized this, every company stood square up to its work and everyman died like a hero. At one moment, desperate and determined,over half of that brigade swept into the fort, but in five minutesthey were swept out of it again and again they took up the fightfrom the parapet. When the retreat was sounded a third of thebrigade was wounded. Gilmores mistake wet the parapets ofWagner with blood. His blunder left the dead and mangled insuch heaps that the bravest veterans were % .Stnn§c llrfasthiork.
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