. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . 13d AMi 63d 0. V. I. STARTING FOR XEW MADRID, Si Clegg. rth AND 39th ii. V. I FOLLOWINGIn .»f Supplies. 48 Fullers Ohio Brigade and Thompson, thai they would capture Cairo and St. Louis, were frus-trated by the occupancy of this territory. At the crossing of the BirdsPoint Railroad, there was a skirmish with )^ti Thompsons Cavalry, a smallforce of the enemys command was captured by our advance, together withthree one pounder guns, breach loaders,
. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . 13d AMi 63d 0. V. I. STARTING FOR XEW MADRID, Si Clegg. rth AND 39th ii. V. I FOLLOWINGIn .»f Supplies. 48 Fullers Ohio Brigade and Thompson, thai they would capture Cairo and St. Louis, were frus-trated by the occupancy of this territory. At the crossing of the BirdsPoint Railroad, there was a skirmish with )^ti Thompsons Cavalry, a smallforce of the enemys command was captured by our advance, together withthree one pounder guns, breach loaders, each drawn by a mule. Thiswas termed by our young soldiers the jackass battery, and LieutenantZenn said : The mule seems as glad to see the Yankees as the coloredpeople are. In the movement upon Xew .Madrid, the Forty-third and Sixty-thirdled in the advance of the Twenty-seventh and Thirty-ninth Ohio on the firstday. The sandy roads and heavy knapsacks, made the men feel keenlytheir first lessons in real soldiering, and many knapsacks were i !HARGE TIIKi UCIl Madrid, Mo., Marcb 6th, 1S62. Capture of New Madrid and Island Ten. 49 On reaching the enemys outpost, on the afternoon of March 3rd. with theTwenty-seventh in advance, muskets were loaded, and the regiments whichwere deployed as skirmishers advanced. Hogs were feeding on the corn-fields, shells were bursting overhead and in the rear, filling the air withsizzling missiles, then striking the ground with a thud. One of the soldierspicked up an unexploded shell and carried it to a fire. The shell explodedand tore him to pieces. On March 3rd, the Ohio Brigade in advance, arrived at Xew Madrid,halting in a corn field, half a mile from town. The Confederates fired fromtheir gun boats on the Mississippi River and also from their fort on theriver bank at Madrid Landing. Toward night, the Brigade fell back ashort distance, to a camp in the woods. Temporarily, the First (Demi)Brigade with the Twenty-seventh
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