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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 29 (search)
rected along the whole front I was to protect; and, keeping a vigilant look-out, I held that position until, on the sixth of January, I was ordered to advance to the present camp. The officers and men of the brigade behaved as would be naturally expected from veteran soldiers who have heretofore earned the highest praise for their bravery and gallantry, and to enumerate one would be injustice to the whole. Among those who laid down their lives for our holy cause, I particularly lament Capt. Zimmerman and Lieutenants Koerner and Guinzius, of the Fifteenth Missouri volunteers. Capt. Alsop, of the Seventy-third Illinois volunteers, Captain Hosmer, of the Forty-fourth Illinois volunteers. May their relatives find a consolation, as their comrades do, in the thought that their death was on a battle-field, for the righteous cause wins immortal laurels for the slain. I cannot omit to mention Capt. Hescock, First Missouri battery, that on December thirty-first, as oftentimes before, did sp
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 103 (search)
essels as we then left the harbor. When the Clifton was half-way toward the bar, her commander was informed, by a boat from the Westfield, that in the explosion of that vessel, which they observed some half-hour before, Commander Renshaw, Lieut. Zimmerman, Engineer Green, and some ten or fifteen of the crew, had perished, the explosion being premature. Lieut. Commander Law, now being commanding officer, proceeded to cross his vessel over the bar, and finally concluded to abandon the blockadeth its head stove in, had been lowered down the hatchway into the forecastle. But two oarsmen were in the cutter, with some eight or ten passengers. To them descended the Chief Engineer, Mr. W. K. Green, followed by the First Lieutenant, Charles W. Zimmerman. Both gentlemen seated themselves in the boat. All now had quitted the doomed vessel except the Commodore. He was seen to step down the stairway, to enter the cutter, when the match, prematurely fired (it is said by a drunkard) must h