The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06
The Assault on Fort Wagner, lPanl Harna. In SontAern nirnuAe 1

Go rushed the EedeFals at . double quick. satu,ed by a simultaneous out 6seak of hot shot an implacable, con. cessIa'ed 6e from Sumter, Gregg and lanes Island. They began to appreciate just then the full meaning of ca Roland ioE ones Oliver"
 And conspicuous in the van, on came the little misguided aud unfortunate MassAchuseus Colonel Shaw, his long Aam waving behind him, as he led bus sable esfaah ft GHs A portion ioi lowed h,m over the ditch, aud planted their flags upon the rAmpaIts, where the colonel was shot and instantly killed. The others, however, could not endure the sight of ,ha. gaping ditcA-o or the re volting sensation ct winged metal, vic iously near-therefore, they broke and under the influence a panic, disgraceiul and irre,Tievablc, acted rAthei like wild brutes let loose from menageIie, than reasoning, responsible men. They blun- dered first upon the Fnst Maine, and at cred upon the Seventy-S,xth rennsyl. vAnia, partially destroying the organ'Ia. ton of both,
 Some of the frightened creatures ran like deer others, m the base paralysis of terror, pIostTated themselves upon the ground, crawling along on hands aud feet
 Then, in startling contrast with this puIllanimity of tho "Black Regiment" by the side of which even the action of the Spartan Helots (who confronted brAvely enosgh their ma aers spears, and covered only at the crack of the Whip) looks like lofiest heroism; then a grand deed, what the old noTthmen would have called deed of fseyesS. Ge was per formed by men of the ever dominant Caucasian race, the thought of which, as l write a quarter of century after it's oc- curTence, here in the tranquil Indian summer, makes my heart beat aud pulses ,htob unanimously, Across the narrow and fatal stretch before the fort every inch of which was swept by a hurrican ot fire, besom of destruction ; x,h Connecticut, Colonel john Chaiiieid, caaFged with such undaunted resolution upon the southeast salient, that they sue ceeded, in the very face of hell, one may say in capturing t.
 What though their victory vas a bar ren achievement what though for three hours they were peuned in, no support daring to follow them friend and foe alike now, as then. must honor and salute them as the bravest of the brave
 Gtimly they held on to the salient they had taken. Indeed. retreat was usx to Impossible. Even body of cyoe mitais<5 are naturally indisposed to taste twice oi the Aadean flame Vainly a section of 1 the Charleston Irish volunteers endeav. ored to dislodge them. They were re pulsed, and their captain. Ryan. killed. A detail from Major David RamsaI : command, advancing upon the same erIand, the gallant major was struck iu the back by shot from the bomb proof, and fell moitally wounded But the enemy were at this time retreatjng from all parts of the field. Their demorAlza- F. ton was complete. Nevertheless, a sharp fire of grape and musketry hissed over the t.ces ot the salien, until the Thirty First Georgia regiment (~ho had jus, reached the island with Brigadier-tse Zen eral Hagood) charged over the south scarp and two companies of the Charles toe battalion, Captain Jul,us Blake, de ployed along the western face, when the Sixth Connecticut, convinced that the game was up sensibly surrendered
 The history of the war, rife with des perate conflicts, can show DO more terrific strfe than this. lt was, in more than one particular, a battle of giants.