..., Captain Appleton, who was disabled, went instead. Lieutenant Homans was wounded near the fort, and thought himself mortally hurt, as he was spitting blood, but staggered along until he was met by Lieutenant Dexter , who assisted him to the rear. Sergt. George E. Stephens of Company B, in a letter to the writer, says,— I remember distinctly that when our column had charged the fort, passed the hal...