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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
t, and the One Hundredth Pennsylvania, One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York, Third Maryland, Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, and the Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, under Marshall. It stood ready for action at half-past 3 o'clock in the morning, the hour appointed for the explosion. An accident postponed that event until almost five o'clock, Pleasants lighted the fuse at a quarter past three o'clock, and waited an hour for the explosion, when Lieutenant Jacob Douty and Sergeant Henry Reese, of Pleasants's regiment, volunteered to go in and examine into the cause of the delay. The fire had stopped where the fuses had been spliced. They were relighted by these daring men, and at sixteen minutes before five o'clock the mine exploded. See Pleasants's Report. when the fort, its guns, caissons, and other munitions of war, and its garrison of three hundred men, were thrown high in air and annihilated. In the place of the fortification was left a crater of loose earth two h
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 18: capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and Goldsboroa.--Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--Stoneman's last raid. (search)
tter advanced rapidly to Curtis's right, drove the Confederates from the strong and almost unharmed palisades, extending from the west end of the landface of the fort to the river (see sketch on page 488), and captured a number of prisoners. The brigade broke through the palisades and joined Curtis. At the same time Bell's brigade had been sent forward to occupy the space between that end of the fort and the river; and Terry sent for Abbott's brigade to move down from the north line, while Reese led the sailors and marines up to occupy that position. He also ordered General Paine to send down one of his best regiments, when the Twenty-seventh, negro troops, Brevet Brigadier-General A. M. Blackman, was forwarded. These arrived when the heaviest of the work was done. It had been performed by the troops already there, who fought hand to hand with the garrison, while the fleet kept up its fire further to the southward, to prevent re-enforcements reaching the fort from Mound Battery,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
ion, battle of, 3.107. Raymond, battle of, 2.606. Reams's Station, battle of, 3.356. Rebellion, plans for, early matured, 1.84. Red River, march of Banks and Weitzel to, 2.599. Red River expedition, Gen. Banks's, 3.251-3.269. Reese, Col., surrender of to Van Dorn, 1.273. Refreshment Saloons in Philadelphia, 1.577. Refugees, Union troops welcomed by in East Tennes see, 3.129. Relay House, Gen. Butler at, 1.444. Reno, Gen. J. L., in the Burnside expedition, 2.167. conduct of, 3.83; sent within the Confederate lines, 3.84; <*>atio Seymour on the arrest of, 3.85. Van Dorn, Major EA<*>E, appears in Texas with a commission as colonel from Davis, 1.271; receives the surrender of Major Sibley, 1.272, and of Col. Reese, 1.273; in command of Confederate troops in Arkansas, 2.251; driven over the Duck River by Sheridau, 3.117; repulsed at Franklin, 3.118; death. <*>note), 3.118. Vicksburg, <*>lockade of the Mississippi at 1.164; strongly fortined by the Conf