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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 3 1 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)
ffering losses, the list including Capt. Samuel Gault of the 38th and Lieut. G. G. Nutting of the 53d. The corps flag of the 19th Corps—blue with a white star and the figures in red—was carried for the first time in this engagement. Lieutenant-Colonel Rodman (38th Mass.) mentioned a case of marked coolness and gallantry on the part of Private Patrick Smith (Co. D, 38th Mass.), who, coming suddenly upon three rebels in the wood upon the right, shot one of them and compelled the other two to y the 49th Mass. (Col. W. F. Bartlett). The loss was not, however, large. In both the two assaults on Port Hudson (May 27 and June 14, 1863) the regiment suffering most severely was the 38th (Colonel Ingraham), the loss beginning with Lieut.-Col. W. L. Rodman of New Bedford, who commanded on the second day. See memoir in Harvard Memorial Biographies, I, 64. Next to this in losses came the 53d (Colonel Kimball), which suffered heavily on both days, the 31st (Colonel Gooding), the 49th (Colo