Artillery.
This remarkable picture was taken while the flyingsap was being pushed forward to the fifth (and last) parallel.
The action of September 6th is thus reported by
Major T. B. Brooks: “The general commanding o r d e r e d
General Terry to take and hold the ridge, and place the resources of the command at his disposal for that purpose.
It was accomplished at 6:30 P. M. by a brilliant charge of the Twenty-tourth Massachusetts Volunteers,
Colonel Francis A. Osborn commanding, supported by the Third New Hampshire Volunteers,
Captain Randlett commanding.
Sixty-seven prisonerswere captured.
They were afraid to retire on account of their own torpe-does, as they informed us, and had too little time, even if there had been no torpedoes.
No works, excepting rude rifle-pits in the excellent natural cover afforded by the ridge, were found. . . . The moment the ridge was gained the work of entrenching was begun under the superintendence of
Captain Walker.”
The balance of the report tells about the fifth parallel and the flying-sap, which took them up to Battery Wagner and the battery renamed
Chatfield on
Cumming's Point, in order to commemorate
Colonel John L. Chatfield, killed July 18th, at Battery Wagner.
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Sap-roller at the head of the flying-sap |
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