. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . SB BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL GALUSIIA A PHOTOGRAPH. chanan, where he purposed to make a we left the hospital the men were fightingover the adjoining traverse and the spent balls. BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL ADELBERT A PHOTOGRAPH. as they advanced slowly and cautiously in thedarkness as far as the Mound Battery, where theyhalted. Some of the men, cut off from the mainbody, had to retreat as best they could over theriver marsh, while some few unarmed artill
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . SB BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL GALUSIIA A PHOTOGRAPH. chanan, where he purposed to make a we left the hospital the men were fightingover the adjoining traverse and the spent balls. BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL ADELBERT A PHOTOGRAPH. as they advanced slowly and cautiously in thedarkness as far as the Mound Battery, where theyhalted. Some of the men, cut off from the mainbody, had to retreat as best they could over theriver marsh, while some few unarmed artilleristsbarely eluded the enemy by following the sea-shore. When we reached Battery Buchanan therewas a mile of level beach between us and our pur-suers, swept by two 11-inch guns and a 24-pounder,and in close proximity to the battery, a commodiouswharf where transports could have come to carrythe men off. We expected to cover with this bat-tery the retreat of the remnant of the garrison,but we found the guns spiked, and every means oftransportation, even the barge and crew of thecolonel commanding, taken by Captain R. F. Chap-man, of our navy, who, following the example ofGeneral Bragg, had abandoned us to our of the guns of Fort Fisher were spiked, themen fighting them until they were destroyed or
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