. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ing and abundantrations were waiting fur them just beyond it, and had any of them been asked if they could take the fort their reply would have been inthe words of the poem: Aint we simply got to take it. Sherman selected for the honor of the assault General Hazens second divisionof the Fifteenth Corps, the same which he himself had commanded at Shiloh and \icksburg. Gaily the troops crossed the bridgeon the morning of the 13th. Sherman was watching through his glass late in the afternoon when a Federal steamer cameup th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ing and abundantrations were waiting fur them just beyond it, and had any of them been asked if they could take the fort their reply would have been inthe words of the poem: Aint we simply got to take it. Sherman selected for the honor of the assault General Hazens second divisionof the Fifteenth Corps, the same which he himself had commanded at Shiloh and \icksburg. Gaily the troops crossed the bridgeon the morning of the 13th. Sherman was watching through his glass late in the afternoon when a Federal steamer cameup the river and signaled the query: Is Fort Mc.\llister taken. To which Sherman sent reply: Not yet, but it will be in a that instant Sherman saw Hazens troops emerge from the woods before the fort, the lines dressed as on parade, with colors dense clouds of smoke belching from the fort enveloped the Federals. There was a pause; the smoke cleared away, and,says Sherman, the parapets were blue with our men. Fort was PATRIOT PU9. CO.
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