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Title: Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 (electronic resource)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Derby, W. P. (William P.)
Subjects: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 27th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter Print. Co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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wenty-Seventh and Forty-Fourth Mass., two companiesof the First North Carolina, Battery G, Capt. Walls ThirdN. Y. Artillery, and Company I, Capt. Jocknick, Third N.Y. Cavalry. The consolidated morning report for March 30,1863, gave the aggregate strength of this command as elevenhundred and thirty-nine men present for duty. CompanyB, Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt., held Blockhouses NumberOne and Two, covering approach by the river and Greenvilleroad west of the town, while Company F held BlockhousesNumber Three and Four, guarding the Jamesville and Plym-outh roads, with the river approach on the east. Compa-nies C and D were now placed within Fort Washington, andthe right to the river held by the remainder of the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt., and the left by the Forty-FourthMass., and First North Carolina Regiments. When thesewere marshalled behind the long line of fortifications,they at once revealed our weakness in numbers, to remedywhich, every able-bodied negro was ordered to the works.
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DEFENCES AND AEMAMENT. 1(39 This was our first experience with armed negroes, and it waswonderful how quietly it was submitted to by many whohad loudly declared, they never would fight side of a nig-ger ! Whitworth shots, exploding shells, and bullettz-z-zps, were wonderfully persuasive arguments on such aquestion, and settled it onco for all with the garrison ofWashington. The land defences consisted of Blockhouse Number One,near the river above the town, commanded by Lreut-P. W.McManus; Number Two on the Greenville road; Lieut. IraB. Sampson ; Number Three between the Jamesville andPlymouth roads, Capt. J. W. Moore, and Number Four onthe river below, Lieut. Pliny Wood. Each of these block-houses contained a six-pound gun, save Number Four, wherea twelve-pounder was substituted. At the centre of theworks, and rear of the town, was Fort Washington, asmall but strong quadrangular, bastioned fort-, ^urrotmdedby a ten-foot ditch and heavy abiittis. -Its - armament con-sisted of four thir

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