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d met the brunt of the attack. Emilio's 54th Mass., p. 63, fully describes this affair. General Seymour also speaks of the 54th as having conducted itself commendably a few days previously on Jamk, 3d New Hampshire, 9th Maine and 76th Pennsylvania. The selection of the 54th was made by General Seymour and General Strong in consultation. It is worth recording that the latter had been a Democ. M. Appleton's paper in Putnam's Magazine, N. S. IV, 9. Gordon's War Diary, pp. 188, 198. General Seymour's report is in Official War Records, 46, p. 345. and the loss of eighty killed showed what 63): Adjutant Howard relates that as he was riding over the field beside Colonel Hallowell, General Seymour rode up to that officer and told him, in substance, that the day was lost and that everythis to quiet it. It then retreated in good order, the last to quit the field. As at Fort Wagner, Seymour had allowed his forces to be beaten in detail as they came up. We were whipped in detail. . .