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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 8: the siege and capture of Fort Donelson. (search)
overcame their honor, and in the hour of extreme necessity they invested him with the chief command, and deserted him. Berge's sharp-shooter. The morning of the 12th Feb. was like one in spring, so warm and balmy was the atmosphere. At an in readiness for battle before morning, and at dawn Feb. 13, 1862. the attack was commenced by the sharp-shooters of Colonel Berge (Sixty-sixth Illinois Regiment This regiment, armed with the Henry rifle, were organized as sharp-shooters by Gene-boats and Wallace's Third Division. Yet heavy artillery firing and brisk skirmishing were kept up all the forenoon, and Berge's sharpshooters, concealed behind logs and trees, Grant's Headquarters, Fort Donelson. spread terror among the Confedea as a support. These, in turn, were closely followed by the Twenty-fifth Indiana and Seventh and Fourteenth Iowa, while Berge's sharp-shooters were deployed as skirmishers on the extreme right and left of the column. When all were in readiness, G