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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 34. attack on Santa Rosa Island. October 9, 1861. (search)
s, succeeded in getting some collected, and Col. Wilson also advanced — the enemy precipitately ret General Anderson is severely wounded. Colonel Wilson's report. Sixth regiment N. Y. S. V.,derson led them on. Their war-cry was Death to Wilson. No quarter to Wilson's Zouaves. Five thousaWilson's Zouaves. Five thousand dollars was the reward for him dead or alive. All our loss is about twenty killed, fifteen wound to Tortugas and intermediate localities. Colonel Wilson and Lieutenant-Colonel Creighton were on t bravely throughout the whole struggle. Colonel Wilson fought valiantly. Captain Norman was cut he battle cry of the enemy was, No quarter for Wilson and his men; but they found that the first parunder arms. They advanced under command of Col. Wilson and Lieutenant-Colonel Creighton, and encouross over to the south beach, and so come upon Wilson's camp suddenly, without encountering the heavtteries. They first came upon and shot two of Wilson's picket guards and drove in the rest near the[9 more...]
received a bullet in the leg. One man was pulled out from under a house. Another concealed near says: I heard an officer yell, Here, shoot this d — d Yankee! Wm. Wilson, of Marion, in this county, is said to have been thrown from the bridge. He swam out, concealed himself, and after daylight the next morning, he with another ming passed up under the bank of the Ohio, was shot from the house of Robert Stewart, a notorious rebel, just above Guyandotte, and wounded severely in the thigh. Wilson was lying at Fuller's, in Quaker Bottom, Monday night. Yells of the infuriated rebels were often heard, such as: Don't let a man escape! Give 'em hell! Take no e, Pleasant Lunsford, all from the northeast part of this county, and John Malloy, an Irishman. We can arrive certainly at ten wounded on our side — among them Wm. Wilson, Clement Nance, George Sines, and Amos Lambert, of the northeast part of this county. The leg of Sines was broken by a ball. Also a man named Bragg was among