. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . onel Loganheld in check the advancing foe for some time, under the mostdestructive fire, whilst I endeavored to assist Colonel Cruft withhis brigade in finding a position on the right of the 31st. It wasnow four hours since fighting began in the morning. The car-tridge-boxes of the 31st were nearly empty. The Colonel hadbeen severely wounded, and the lieutenant-Colonel John had, with some thirty others, fallen dead on the field,and a large number wounded. In this
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . onel Loganheld in check the advancing foe for some time, under the mostdestructive fire, whilst I endeavored to assist Colonel Cruft withhis brigade in finding a position on the right of the 31st. It wasnow four hours since fighting began in the morning. The car-tridge-boxes of the 31st were nearly empty. The Colonel hadbeen severely wounded, and the lieutenant-Colonel John had, with some thirty others, fallen dead on the field,and a large number wounded. In this condition Colonel Loganbrought off the remainder of his regiment in good order. The fall of Fort Donelson was the first important Uniontriumph, and the country was electrified by it. GeneralsGrant and McClernand, Oglesby and Logan, and the othercommanders of the campaign were the heroes of the exultant poet at the time thus sang the glories of Illinois,which appeared in the Boston Advertiser : *0h ! gales that dash th Atlantics swellAlong our rocky thunders diapason well New Englands glad hurrahs—. 409 Bear to the prairies of the West The echoes of our prayer that springs in every breast, * God bless thee, Illinois! / Oh awful hours, when grape and shellTore through the unflinching line; * Stand firm, remove the men who fell. Close up, and await the sign. It came at last; *Now, lads, the steel 1*The rushing hosts deploy; * Charge, boys!—the broken traitors reel— Huzzah for Illinois! In vain thy rampart, Donelson, The living torrent jars;It leaps the wall, the Fort is won. Up go the Stripes and Stars. Thy proudest mothers eyelids fill. As dares her gallant Plymouth Eock and Bunker HiH, Shout, ^ Bless thee, Illinois! These lines vrere generally copied by the Northern press. Colonel Logan was one of four officers whom Major-GeneralGrant, in his letter to the Secretary of War, especially rec-ommended for promotion for services at Fort Donel
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