The National tribune., 1892-10-27
Mention The National rYsbszn
The Sailors and Marines Charge at Fort
Fisher

The Sailors and Marines Charge at Fort
Fisher.
David Rainey, alias Thomas McNeill, U.
S. S. Chippewa, East Jordan, Mich, says
he was in the seamen and marine charge
at Fort Fisher. 1t happened about 2 o'clock
On Sunday afternoon, and they landed from
the fleet about $500 strong and were formed
in three lines of battle with the marines on
the right and the blue jackets at the waters
edge and about so rods from the fort. Capt.
Porter was in command of the seamen. and
they charged along the waters edge, that ran
up from the water to the fort. At the end OF
this stockade Capt. Porter fell. and his last
words were for the boys to rally, as their ranks
were beginning to get badly broken. After
Capt. Porter fell he does not think the sailors
went much farther. He followed the officer OF
his own gunboat toward the fort, and when
within few rods of the fort he looked back,
and seeing no one be called to the officer and
told him that the rest had retreated. There
were five of them that got close 10 the fort,
but only four got under shelter. The writer
does not know to whom the credit belongs for
taking Fort Fisher, but he does know that IL
was very hot place for while. The soldiers
fought from the time that the sailors and
marines were repulsed until IL o'clock that
night before the fort surrendered.
Scattering.
J. II. Tunstall. Co. 3. 6ith n. Y, Rochester,
". Y, says that in reading of the Reunion OF
the Second Corps he noticed the name OF Capt
Jones' of the 64th n. Y. as being present he
thinks this must be Capt. Franklin G. Jones. OF
Co. =, his regiment and would like very much
to hear from him.
George Z. Blythe, Bowman's Bluff. n. C.,
wishes his comrades of the I'd n. G. MED Inf
woald write for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
DIR. stevenson's Attempt at yindication.
Darius Monroe, Co. K, 7th Mich, says that
DR.. r. Il. Stevenson, Surgeon-iu-Chief at
Audersonville. undertook to yIndlcate the
memory of fallen heroes and erase the dark
stain uniustly cast upon the Southern people be-
cause of their treatment of prisoners at that
place. The writer was a prisoner, and suffered
at Andersonvlle for seven months and more,
commencing June 5, 1864. and ending Jan. 80,
1865, and he will say that DR.. Stevenson. capt
WirZ JEFF Davis, or any other rebel, never lost
any sleep over the condition OF the prisoners
in that hell hole. The Doctor says that Wirz
never cursed the men laid violent hands
upon them, which IS lie out of whole cloth.
The writer can show marks on his person to this
day that he received at the hands of Wirz, and
he has seen this same DR.. Stevenson kick, cui,
and pull the hair from the heads of men who
were unable to help themselves, and If justice
had been done this doctor he would have been
hung along with Wirz. The Doctor claims that
the location of the prison was chosen with
and the good water; but if the Doctor thinks
that if the water with the filth of the cook
house. the sinks of the garrison. and the i'm
purites Of the stabIos aud corra!s of all the ami
mails which ran through the stockade. was
pure water, he does not know what pure water
is Surgeon White reported on the 9TH of Au-
gust, 1864, that the wafer was bad. As to Capt.
Wirz, the writer has seen him stamp men to
death who could not lift a hand III their own
defense, or rise from the ground, and he has
seen men whom he caused to be killed by
the hounds. He would like 70 know how Dr.
Stevenson can get over the order Issued Dy
Wirz. giving Through to any member of the
4th Ca who would kill a Yank; which does not
look as though Wirz was very tender-hearted
man. The writer is of the opinion that DR..
Stevenson was as cruel as was WirZ.
Carrolls Brigade at Gettysburg.