. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... had been formedby connecting stump with stump. There were besidesnumerous rifle-pits and abattis. The fort was occupied by the Seventy-ninth NewYork, the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts, two companiesof the Second and one of the Twentieth armament consisted of four twenty-pounderParrott guns, Lieutenant Benjamin, Burnsides chiefof artillery ; four light twelve-pounders, commandedby Buckley; and two three-inch guns. The assault-ing party was composed of three brigades of McLawsdivision, with those
. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... had been formedby connecting stump with stump. There were besidesnumerous rifle-pits and abattis. The fort was occupied by the Seventy-ninth NewYork, the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts, two companiesof the Second and one of the Twentieth armament consisted of four twenty-pounderParrott guns, Lieutenant Benjamin, Burnsides chiefof artillery ; four light twelve-pounders, commandedby Buckley; and two three-inch guns. The assault-ing party was composed of three brigades of McLawsdivision, with those of Wolford, Humphreys, Ander-son, and Bogart. They were picked men, the fiowerof Longstreets army. The Confederate Yell. In the gray of the morning of the 29th the assault•was made, with a vigor and determination not sur-passed in the previous history of the war. What withthe fierce yells of the Confederates, the ratde of mus-ketry, the screaming of shells, the thunder of artillery,the tumult for a time was awful. The Confederates,as they approached, were received with a deadly fire. \jr AVt rv-o 352 GENERAL ^ERMAN. from the batteries of the fort. Nothing daunted, how-ever, by the destructive missiles which flew thick andfast around them or by the sight of their fallen com-rades, on they pressed, through the abattis, across theditch and up the parapet, some of them forcing theirway through the embrasures. The obstacles encoun-tered, the wire network particularly, made their prog-ress slow, and consequently kept them long exposedto the double-shotted guns which Ferrero, the com-mander of the fort, kept in active play. The Assault Fails. When the assailants reached the parapet theirranks were greatly thinned, but their spirits were notsubdued. One officer actually reached the summit,and, planting upon it the flag of the Thirteenth Mis-sissippi, called for surrender. It was a vain call, forthe next moment his body, pierced by a dozen bullets,the flag still in his hand, was roll
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