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The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Case of suspended Animation. (search)
alker armament consisted of sixteen guns, nine of which bore upon the shipping, the balance being in position on the land side. Five or six of these guns, among them the 24-pound rifle cannon and one ten inch Columbiad, were disabled during the forenoon. Thus disabled and their ammunition exhausted, the garrison evacuated Fort Walker between three and four o'clock, retiring in the direction of Bluffton, leaving the guns in position and unspiked, having no spikes for that purpose. Capt. Jacob Reed's artillery corps of the First Georgia Regiment of Regulars arrived at the scene of action on Wednesday night, and on yesterday bore a gallant part in the fight. Four or five of his men were killed early in the action. The corps lost two of their guns and several horses. Col. Randolph Spaulding Georgia Volunteer Regiment, commanded by Capt. Berry were also in the engagement. They were marched to the beach where they received a galling fire of round shot and shell from the fleet,