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Title: The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880 Mottelay, Paul Fleury, b. 1841, ed Campbell-Copeland, T. (Thomas), ed Beath, Robert B. (Robert Burns), 1839-1914 Vandervoort, Paul. History of the Grand Army of the Republic Avery, I. W. (Isaac Wheeler), 1837-1897. History of the Confederate Veterans' Association Davis, A. P. History of the Sons of Veterans Merrill, Frank P. History of the Sons of Veterans
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Navy Grand Army of the Republic United Confederate Veterans Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Publisher: New York Atlanta : Stanley Bradley Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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l—actingBrigadier-gpucT.d—H, 1^. Potnam, of the Seventhtiow ilamnshire The leadint column under within abont half a mile of Fort Wogner, when theFedonds were put on tho double-finick ; but beforethey came within musket-range of tho fort theiradvance was cheeked by a tri,iiicndous discharge ofshot, shell and canister from tho Wagner bastions,as well as frdm tho giins of Fort Sumter ami Tla*-fcry Oregg, KU;i(iiemonted by voIIovb of mu^evfrom the garrison, anjl by the ^^rowing of handgrenades from the varapot^ Carney Ieceived a severe wonnd in the thigli whiltin the act of planting the regimental Ktandard uponthe parapet. The Confederates, ■wore, liowever, insuch large nnrabcre that the Fifty-fonrtli was com.polled to fall hack after the loss of lialf theirnumber. The Sixth Connecticut, Ninth Maine,Third Now Hanipsliire, and other regiments, fol-lowed in turn, hut the furions storm of firo thatwas linrlcd against thera provp.d ao dpjstxactiTe that i!io THE SOLDIER FN OUR CIVIL WAR.
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THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL WAR. I8i ueudral StroDf; was compelled (O oKifC the troope lo retire. The commanding-gene ml and Colonel Cbatfleldwere mortally ivounded, and Colonela Green, Bar-ton and Jackson received euch severe injuries thetthey were compelled to leave the field. The com-mand of tho hrtyodo devolved upon llajor Plymj)-Ilii, of the Third Ncw Hampshire. Colonel Putnams colnmn—made np of his ownregiment, tho Sovenlh New Hampshire; Iho OneHundredth Now York. Colonel Dandy; the Sixty-eectmd Ohio. Colonel Steele ; and tho Sixty-seventhOhio, Colonel Voorhecs—then came forward. For nearly half an hour tho contest was oncemore kept up, the prmipot being again scaled, andmany s&vcrc hand-to-Iiund lighta carried on ; butthe Federals succeeded only in driving the Confed-erates betwcon the traverses, and were then chargedupon HO furiously by frcsli troops tliat llioy woreexpelled with great losaca. Tho latter includedColonel F-itnam, who was killed while at tho head gtin, name

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