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The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 22: the War on the Potomac and in Western Virginia. (search)
posed position, the Lieutenant swam out to the nearest one, carrying on his back a soldier (and his musket) who could not swim. Only one man of the party who landed was injured; but a sad event James Harman Ward. occurred on the deck of the Freeborn. The gunner was wounded in the thigh, when Captain Ward took charge of the piece. While sighting it, a well-aimed Minie ball came from the shore and mortally wounded him by entering the abdomen. As he fell he was caught by one arm of Harry Churchill, the boatswain's mate, who used his other hand with the string to fire the well-aimed cannon, whose round shot struck plump among the insurgents. Ward lived only forty-five minutes. The ball had passed through the intestines and liver. His was the only life sacrificed on the occasion, on the Union side. Captain Ward was the first naval officer who was killed in the war. His body was taken to the Washington Navy Yard, and thence to New York, where, on the deck of the North Carolina,