The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1863-08-01
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Efaor N,ie StL Ii has been my pleasure rcri$
your excellent paper since its first edition; sn with
a yoar patrons, have always hailed its appearance With
delight have always Known il to be true cXpostur
passing and truthful record Of all transactions
the department. yet as member IT the '6th Penns.
yos cannot but protest against the ptcation of the
count the assault Fort Wagner furnished you by
one of your correspondents this s:and which account
proves one of two things that a writer very isno-
rant of le truth shows MALICIOUS desire to vify II.
gimcnt that did all that braye mel do shall be
brief possible and hope that yu will pubsh unvar
nished statement Of facts witnessed by who
there. As who is proul o. lliAs commission in
the United States service and having md in the
10th Penna, request permission to rindicae my
honor in defending my regiment
wouid not detract from the mitso of the Battalion of
the 9Th Conn. shown in its conduct that morning. Itdid
nobly and led by brave officer but in reporting the
events Of that engagement your correspondent to
have forgotten-f he was there to lea nthat what the 1h
did one angle of the wyrk. tho sefh did equally weos
hcadjoning side. As received nc order 10 charge the
fash of the artillery the knoll at the foot
gacs We keit and permitted that charge pass
u.s. thereby saving many lives The tinsant started
forward with yell that told thcr few cowary hearts
in the work. bile ascending the giacs ranks
thinned every discharge Of nuskey and artillery yet
reached the moat and many crossed 1t and fell there
the parapct beyond only after the command to
treat was given that retired leaving the glacis and
IN tbe meat hundred and thirty and fvc officers
We lost comparatively In the retreat separated
for the sake of safety and all who fell wounded after we
left the gacis were brought off the field Our casualties
were one hundred and ninetyeight ont Of three hundred
and fifty engaged and yet your correspondent in style OF
description that would do rredit TO blood and thunder
tale of uopian fields OF carnage gives the exclamation OF
en- excited and wounded man place in his description
IT, in that hasty expression were summed up the
whole cause of failure. All honor the brave who
led u.s. but prove that veracous correspondent
greatly mistaken, permit me To say that Major Hicks
was wounded while the regiment wes yet advancing III
your correspondents statement is made to appear that
major Kicks pressed forward with fcac brave fellows
and fell at point the regiment did not reach. IL giving
list of the casualties he unasty aocreds to the 10th P.
and 9th Me-" many stragglers who will yet turn up Of
oil those missing not Of the 10th heb yet turned up
He loses sight Gf the fact that while eudearorng To
cribe the fight style Of pucrie sentimcnay. he has
done very mnch toward blasting the reputation Of
gment snd crushing the ambition Of tose Of who isy
at any time he again taken through the fiery ordeal Or
reputation regiment lost and individual honor perled,
what there stimulate do utmost the future?
We all know the result of the the 1Sh does
regiments cannot take fort after ii has been necessarily
bombarded for ten hours lie pot than injustice To
assert anything derosatoy to1o regiments snd bat aon
who assault the fort and repulsed ar one OF the
advance regiments and the battalion have lost over one
half their officers and mena 1t must also be borne in
mind that when the 7th Conn., 9th Me- aud 10Th Pa, AS
ssued Fort Wagner Rterayrleton regiments.
through somebody's neglect haversacks which had
been left in the boats by order not forwarded to
and we had tasted for thirty hours previous to the fight
Yours for justice,
WI s. DuLER, Capt roth Pa Vols.