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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 6 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
wo other very graphic descriptions of the scene may be found in the same volume. The Massachusetts troops actually involved in the attack were the 11th, 21st, 29th, 35th, 40th, 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th Infantry and the 5th Battery. Of these, the 59th suffered most in prisoners and the 57th in killed; but none of these sustained such heavy losses as fell upon some of the newly levied colored regiments of Ferrero's Division. Among the killed were Lieut. S. G. Berry (35th Mass.), Capts. George H. Howe and E. T. Dresser (57th Mass.), Lieut. Clement Granet (58th Mass.). Gen. W. F. Bartlett was again struck by a shot and was captured, but it proved to be only his wooden leg that was shattered, although this was not at first discovered by the sympathizing soldiers who undertook to bear him away. In the third battle of Deep Bottom, Va. (Aug. 14-18, 1864), the attacking brigade was led in the most gallant manner by Col. George N. Macy of the 20th Mass., who had returned that day from