. The Third New Hampshire and all about it . a prisoner, pitch him over the Avails [ ! ], and then get into bomb-proofs or behind the Avorks for protection. The naAal column was made up of small squads of men from anumber of the war ships, under command of their own officers (seeelsewhere). Admiral Porter says he detailed 1,600 sailors and 400 marinesto accompany the troops, the sailors to board the sea face, Avhile thetroops assaulted the land side .... the sailors went to the attackby the flank, along the beach, while the troops rushed in at the[rebels] left, through the palisades that had b
. The Third New Hampshire and all about it . a prisoner, pitch him over the Avails [ ! ], and then get into bomb-proofs or behind the Avorks for protection. The naAal column was made up of small squads of men from anumber of the war ships, under command of their own officers (seeelsewhere). Admiral Porter says he detailed 1,600 sailors and 400 marinesto accompany the troops, the sailors to board the sea face, Avhile thetroops assaulted the land side .... the sailors went to the attackby the flank, along the beach, while the troops rushed in at the[rebels] left, through the palisades that had been knocked away bythe fire of the fleet .... they succeeded in getting up to Avithin ashort distance of the fort, and lay securely in their ditches, with but Jan. 65.\ THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. 605 few killed or wounded up to this time. The marines were to have heldthe rifle-pits and cover the 6oarcZa/-fy, but failed to do so . . .some reached the parapet, and some the ditch. The advance was the soldiers had gained two. swept from the parapet like chafftraverses, and the Ironsides firedupon the others. Four, five,six, were carried in an traverses were immensebomb-proofs, about 60 feet long,.)0 feet wide and 20 feet high :seventeen of them on the landface. Between the traverses,heavy guns. The fort was cap-tured about 10 oclock (even-ing)- The landing of the marinesand sailors to attack the fort —a novelty in itself, — must havea place, as it is inseparablefrom the general whole, and infact proved to be an importantfactor in the fight. Lieut. S. had a force of about 10men from each ship, armed withshovels aud picks. The ma-rines, as skirmishers, to follow,were under 2d Lieut. L. E. Faganof the Marine Corps. The assaulting column was as follows : First Line, marines,—Capt. L. L. Dawson, Marine Corps. Second Line, com-posed of the lauding party of the First and Fourth Divisions of thesquadron, under C. H. Cushman. Third Line,
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