Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-07


 were seen debouching from their first parallel and advancing over the mar row approach between it and the fort Then from the bombproof and sand hills the garrison quickly gathered along the ramparts. Field pieces were ranged, the artillerists double shotted their guns, and
 ssEach gunner rnoveless by his piece with
 rigid aspect stands,
 The ready lanyards firmly grasped in
 bold untrembling hands;
 So moveless in their marble calm, their
 stern heroic guise,
 They look like forms of statued stone
 with burning human eyes.
 "On rushed the Federals at double quick, saluted by simultaneous out break of hot shot, an implacable, con- centrated fire from Sumter, Gregg and James island. Conspicuous in the van, on came the misguided and unfortu- nate Colonel Shaw, his long hair way ing behind him as he led his sable en- fants perdus- A portion followed him over the ditch and planted their flag on the ramparts, where the colonel was shot and instantly killed The others, however, could not endure the sight of that gaping ditch or the revoltng sen sation of winged metal viciously near.
 Some of the frightened creatures ran like deer, others in the base paEaly- sis of terror prostrated themselves upon the ground, crawling along on hands and feet. Then grand deed which the old northmen would have called a deed of derring-d do was per formed by the men of the ever doni nant Caucasian race, the thought of which as I write, quarter of a cen tury after it's occurrence, makes my heart beat and my pulse throb tumultu- ously Across the narrow and fatal which was swept by a hurricane of fire, a bosom of destruction, the Sixth Connecticut (and Forty eighth New York charged with such umdaunted resolution upon the southeast salient that they succeeded in the very face of hell, one may say, in capturing fl"
 The commmndant of Fort Wagner, General W. B. Taliaferro, describing the charge, surpassed in fervor the en- thusiasm of the poet Hayne. Said he: 'SThe Confederates, with the tenacity of bulldogs and fierce courage arous- ed almost to madness, poured from the rampars and embrasures sheets of flame and tempest of lead and iron. Yet the intrepid assailants rushed on like the waves of the sea by whose shores they fought They fell by hun- dreds, but they pushed on, reeling un- der the frightful blasts that almost blew them to pieces, up to the Con- federate bayonsts."
 The Sixth Connecticut and Forty eighth New York belonged to General Strongas brigade. It was 8 o'clock and fully dark when the assailants, to the number of TOO, entered the bastion. Soon after dark Colonel H. $. Putnam charged with the Seventh New Hamp- shire in-the wake of Strong and in the confusion and darkness assaulted the very point held by Strungss men The bastion was held for tn se. hours, when the survivors, 140 in all, surrendered to party of the garrison led by Cap tain W. Fl. Ryan, who was killed in the counter assault
 Continuing his description, Mir. Hayne says: ~The history of war, rife with terrible conflicts, can show no more terrific strife than this. have conversed with old Confederates in re gard to the night succeeding this great assault and have remarked how sea- soned veterans shudder when they re call it's horrors. Wearily the dark hours passed, and Sabbath morning dawned over the sand hills, and every detail of the scene was brought out in bold relief. Men lay in every possi- ble attitude, with every conceivable expression on their countenances, their limbs bent into unnatural shapes by a fall of thirty feet
 @In the salient, on the ramparts, they lay heaped up, often three deep. Con spicuous among them was taH, su- perbIy formed man, an officer, whose calm features, only the more clearly 1 cut by the chisel of death, gaDed to- ward the cloudless sky-a breathIess Apollo! This was Colonel Putnam of ] the Seventh New Hampshire AL | though, horrible to relate, the entire back of his head had been blown of, the wonderful beauty of his face re- mained unshadowed, evoking from his foes sigh of pity. On the crest, sur rounded by few-a very few-of his sable troops, at the foot of the flag he had vainly planted, was the body of Colonel Shaw. One would have thought at a cursory glance that it was the corpse of mere boy"
 The assailants of the bastion repre- scented nearly every regiment in Strong's brigade, but the most of them were from the Sixth Connecticut and Forty eighth New York The last named regiment entered the fight with 516 off cers and men. Its death roll was S5; wounded, 112; prisoners in the basdon, 73. The loss in the Sixth Connecticut was 15 killed, v wounded and 46 cap | tured. Shaw's colored regiment lost 180 out of 1000 borne on the rolls
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