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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pickings. (search)
the beach.--The officer in command was Tetanal, of Georgia, the same who, at the risk of his commission and his life, interposed last year and rescued the defeated British at the Peiho Forts in China. --During the sledge of Fort Brown the pulley of the flag got deranged, so that it could not be raised.--An officer climbed the staff, and in the midst of a terrible tempest of shot and shell calmly and deliberately arranged the halyards, righted the pulley, and hoisted the flag.--The exploit of Jasper at Fort Moultrie was as nothing, in comparison with this daring deed.--That officer was Hanson, of Washington city, a descendant of John Hanson, of Maryland, President of the First Congress, and of Col. John Hanson Harrison, one of the most distinguished of Washington's aids. Years before the siege of Fort. Brown, General Worth had pronounced him the bravest man in the army. He was gentle and modest as a girl, kind and courteous to all, a devoted and enthusiastic Christian, a gentleman in