. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . iams, who hadbeon ordered to reinforce General Stevens,lost his way in the woods, and his men wereexposed to a severe cross-fire, in which theylost Bovorely. The Third New Ifniniwliiruand Tlnrd Rhode Island Regiments drovetbo Confederates ut the point of the bayunot,and thus saved the entire force from g
. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . iams, who hadbeon ordered to reinforce General Stevens,lost his way in the woods, and his men wereexposed to a severe cross-fire, in which theylost Bovorely. The Third New Ifniniwliiruand Tlnrd Rhode Island Regiments drovetbo Confederates ut the point of the bayunot,and thus saved the entire force from guns of tho Tower fort were silencedby these bold assaults, and a promptforcemeat of a few hundred mon wouldhave captured the earthworks. Before the assaulting party could reor-ganize, the earthworks were reinforced bytwo regiments of infantry from Fort Jack-son. Thai fort also began shelling the be-eicgtr.*, who could not ho aided by tho gun-boats, owing to their too great distance fromthe field; and the Federals had finally toretire, after having sustained a loss of over700 killed and wounded, as against but ouo-tliijii that number lost on tho side of theConfederates, It was wisely concluded towithdraw, as it was afterward shown itwould have required a much larger force to. HEROIC CONDUCT OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MORRISON, SEVENTY - NINTH NEW YORK.(HIGHLANDERS), ON _1UE PARAPET OF THE TOWER BATTEBV, JAMES ISLAND. Of ssfully .armed garrison thonat tho fort, protectedas it was by heavyabatis behinu a ditcbfilled with sevenfeet of water, anda parapet fullysovon feot in height,For a time all fur-ther attempts tomove upon Charles-,on wero abandoned. H. W. BENHAJIL BoitS InConnerlicut; intorcd the Uuited Stii I id Military Ara-ileit-y nt West Point,Jury 1st, 1S« , first iu hisclass, exactly four year*tutor. Entered tl Mid lieu-t la the Corps oEEngineers, and waspromoted to bo a Orwlieutenant oa the July, 18S9. Promie39tol&H, he servedns supo rial ending en-gineer
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