. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . H. Perry. Jones Island (K, 1st N. Y. Engineers, L. Southard, and G, 3d R. I. Artillery, Capt. John ), William B. Barton. Bird Island (E,3dR. 1. Artillery, Capt. James E. Bailey, and E, 1st , Capt. James E. Place), Maj. Oliver T. Beard. SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF FORT PULASKI. 11 range. Not only were the two casemates opened to an aggregate width ofthirty feet, but the scarp wall was battered down in front of three casematepiers, and the adjacent w


. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . H. Perry. Jones Island (K, 1st N. Y. Engineers, L. Southard, and G, 3d R. I. Artillery, Capt. John ), William B. Barton. Bird Island (E,3dR. 1. Artillery, Capt. James E. Bailey, and E, 1st , Capt. James E. Place), Maj. Oliver T. Beard. SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF FORT PULASKI. 11 range. Not only were the two casemates opened to an aggregate width ofthirty feet, but the scarp wall was battered down in front of three casematepiers, and the adjacent wall on each side was so badly shattered that a fewhours firing would have doubled the width of practicable breach, a ramp of debris reaching to the footpairing the work subse-linear feet of wall had A messenger whofort just beforeceeded in mak-the creeks andcarried to Sa-miles up thethat the fort had of the counterscarp. In re-quently, one hundredto be rebuilt. escaped from thethe surrender suc-ing his way overmarshes, andvannah, fifteenriver, the news fallen.! The con-sternation wassupreme. Allhope of saving. VIEWS OF FOET PULASKI AFTER THE SCRRE>TDERFROM PHOTOGRAPHS. the city seemed lost, and the citizens began to secure themselves by sendingtheir families and property into the interior. Their confidence in the ability Tybee Island, Acting Q. A. GiUmore: 7thConn., Col. Alfred H. Terry; 8th Mich., Col. William ; 46th N. Y., Col. Rudolph Kosa ; 1st N. Y. Engi-neers, (Cos A and D, Lieut. Thomas B. Brooks E. Graefi, James F. Hall: B, F,and H, 3d R. I. Artillery, Capts. L. C. Tourtellot, PardonMason, and Horatio Rogers. Jr. ; detachment A, IT. , Sergeant James E. Wilson. CONFEDERATE FORCES. Col. Charles H. Olmstead: Montgomery Guard, J. Gilmartin; German Volunteers, Capt. John : Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Capt. T. TV. Sims;Wise Guard, Capt. M. J. McMullan; Washington Volun-teers, Capt. John McMahon. Of


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