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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 5: the greater assault on Wagner. (search)
r-General Hagood, commanding the Rebel forces, said to me: I knew Colonel Shaw before the war, and then esteemed him. Had he been in command of white troops, I should have given him an honorable burial; as it is, I shall bury him in the common trench with the negroes that fell with him. The burial party were then at work; and no doubt Colonel Shaw was buried just beyond the ditch of the fort in the trench where I saw our dead indiscriminately thrown. Two days afterwards a Rebel surgeon (Dr. Dawson, of Charleston, S. C., I think) told me that Hagood had carried out his threat. Assistant-Surgeon Luck's statement is, however, contradicted by General Hagood; for having requested information upon the matter, the writer, in December, 1885, received from Gen. Samuel Jones, of Washington, a copy of a letter written by Gen. Johnson Hagood to Col. T. W. Higginson, of Cambridge, Mass., dated Sept. 21, 1881. General Hagood quotes from Colonel Higginson's letter of inquiry relative to Colone
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Appendix. (search)
ughout the day with the mutilated subjects. The wounds generally are of a severe character, owing to the short distance at which they were inflicted, so that amputations were almost the only operations performed. Probably not less than seventy or eighty legs and arms; were taken off yesterday, and more are to follow to-day. The writer saw eleven removed in less than an hour. Yankee blood leaks out by the bucketful. . . . The surgeons and physicians in attendance and at work. were Doctors J. L. Dawson in charge of the hospital, T. M. Robertson,. Ancrum, Kinlock, Coleman, Mood, Davega, Elliot, two Fitches, Ravenel, Bellinger, Raoul, Brown, and probably two or three others whose names are not now recalled. In view of the fact that our white prisoners exchanged on the next day reported that the Confederates neglected their wounds, that the surgeons were unskilful, and that unnecessary amputations were suffered, the above account is quoted. States says, that being wounded, he wa
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Index. (search)
05, 219, 222, 223, 231, 232, 234, 237, 245, 261, 286, 288, 291, 298, 302, 303, 309, 310, 311, 312, 315, 316, 317. Dahlgren, John A., 46, 52, 114, 128, 151, 189, 192, 199, 211, 213, 236, 270, 274, 313. Dale, William J., 19, 21, 23, 24. Dancy, R. F., 173. Darby's, Fla., 173. Darien, Ga., 41. Darlington, S. C., 289. David, Confederate torpedo boat,; 32. Davis, Jefferson, 17, 37, 135, 313. Davis, W. W. H., 37, 52, 53, 55, 63, 64, 146, 187, 188, 208. Dawhoo River, S. C., 208. Dawson, Dr., 100. Deep Creek, Fla., 182. Defences of Charleston, 310. Defences of Lighthouse Inlet, 191. Deford, Ben, steamer, 46. Dehon, Dr., 278, 279. Delany, Martin R., 12. De Lorme, T. M., 200. Demand for pay or muster-out, 191. De Molay, steamer, 33, 35, 37, 39. De Mortie, sutler, 108. Department of the South, 1, 31, 48, 172, 185, 193, 229, 231, 267. Departure from Boston, 32. De Pass, William L., 242. Deserters, Execution of, 48, 143. Deserters from enemy, 182, 24