. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . Twenty-seventh and Thirty-ninth Ohio being in advance, until the Great Fee DeeRiver was reached, a large, deep, navigable stream. The bridge over thisriver was found to be on fire, as was also the railroad depot. The enemyremained on the east bank of the river, contesting the passage of the FirstDivision, until the great bridge was consumed and fell into the river. Thecaptures consisted of the old United States Arsenal, thirty-six pieces of ar-tillery, thirty-six tons of po
. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . Twenty-seventh and Thirty-ninth Ohio being in advance, until the Great Fee DeeRiver was reached, a large, deep, navigable stream. The bridge over thisriver was found to be on fire, as was also the railroad depot. The enemyremained on the east bank of the river, contesting the passage of the FirstDivision, until the great bridge was consumed and fell into the river. Thecaptures consisted of the old United States Arsenal, thirty-six pieces of ar-tillery, thirty-six tons of powder, a large quantity of fixed ammunition, threethousand muskets, provisions, locomotives and cars. At Cheraw by the carelessness of a soldier, thirty-six hundred barrelsof powder, which had been captured there were exploded. This explosionkilled and maimed several of our men. One of the twenty-pound Blakelyguns captured, was ornamented at the breach with a brass plate, on whichwas inscribed: Presented to the Sovereign State of South Carolina byone of her citizens resident abroad, in Commemoration of the Twentieth. CAMPAICN OF THE AliMY BEADED FOR RICHMOND. Thk Battle of Bentonville. 271 of December, I860: This was the day that South Carolina guns, some of them brass pieces, were at the Rock Island UnitedStates Arsenal in the year 1886. The Twenty-seventh Ohio was placed 011guard over the captured artillery, over which they planted their flag forthey were the first in possession of it. On March 4th. a detachment of the Twenty-seventh < )hio Infantryunder Captain Charles H. Smith was sent down along the bank of the PeeDee River and built a line of earthworks in anticipation of a gun boatattack. Later in the day. the Thirty-ninth hio and Eighteenth Missouricrossed the river in boats and drove the enemy from the eastern enabled the pontoons to be laid for the army to cross. At five oclockin the afternoon, all the First Brigade was in
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