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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
pany G, Lieutenant F. R. Dalton commanding.--Killed — None. Wounded — J. C. Johnson, in thigh, and missing. H. C. Clark and Peter Cline, missing. Company H, Captain William H. Allison, commanding.--Killed — None. Wounded--Private Geo. Duncan, in hand. Missing — J. Blankenship. List of Casualties in the Powhatan Artillery, Captain W. J. Dance commanding, in the fight at Fort Gilmer, near Chaffin's Bluff, on the twenty-ninth of September. Killed--Corporal J. T. Creole, Privates J. P. Smith, G. R. Miller and A. M. Tucker, Wounded--Captain W. J. Dance, severely in shoulder; Sergeant G. W. Bailey, slightly in arm; Corporal T. C. Miller, right arm shot off; Corporal W. W. Bragg, severely in side; Corporal B. P. Cox, severely in face and threat. Privates S. C. Hickman, severely in both legs; Joseph M. Mosely, left arm shot off; W. D. Tucker, severely in head; G. W. Taylor, severely in side; C. W. T. Spotts, right hand badly fractured; David W. Haskins, left thigh broken; E
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Letter from the Commander of Fort Gaines. (search)
umb, but he only charged me to do the best I could. He knew quite well that the fort could not hold out or make a fight, and that the time for orders from him had passed. I am also blamed for not answering his signals. My reason for this is, that negotiations were then pending, under flag of truce, and therefore I had no right to communicate. As regards my not consulting him about the surrender, I was cut off and surrounded, and could only act on my own responsibility. Besides this, Captains Smith and Thom had visited Fort Gaines only the night previous, and foreseeing the inevitable result, they told me that the General left the matter entirely with me. General Page also came over while I was at the fleet, and learning the whole state of affairs, why did he not assume command and illustrate, just for one day, the mad, forlorn and unavailing desperation of making a human slaughter-pen of Fort Gaines? Instead of this, however, he returned immediately, thus avoiding any implication