The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-21

ing several nights IN succession Suell
fell into the city each five minutes!
One of the thirty Founders was fired
4,615 times.
The precision of the fire on boil,
SIDES was often marvellous. 1t Is re.
lated that q captain of n Maine regi-
ment stood up on a bomb-proof at
Battery Gregg Ito have a good view OF
Charleston" From James Island,
mile and a half off, a Confederate
gunner sighted him and made him
mark. The ball cut him in two!
During the operations against Fort
Wagner, while the Eighty-fifth Penn
sylvania Regiment was guarding the
trenches, nine of its men were seated
together, outside of cover. a mortar
shell fired from James Island. de-
stroyed the entire party at a blow
killing seven and mortally wounding
two.
While number of the One Hundred
and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment
were asleep at night in a bomb-proof
of Battery Gregg. shell from James
Island entered the door and killed and
wounded seven.
This sketch merely attempts to give
some of the most interesting features
of the long siege and defense of
Charleston, as recorded by eye-wit-
nesses. The complete story would re-
quire volumes in the telling, and would
strikingly illustrate the courage, the
tenacity, the endurance and the skill
of the American soldier-J. F. F., In
American Tribune.
The Nelson Act.
In 1868, when a group Of mortar
schooners Joined their fire to that of
the other vessels which We're besieging
Port Hudson, Admiral Schley, then a.
young man. was in temporary COM
mand. There was, he says, in his
''Forty-Five Years Under the Flag"
almost no breeze and the signal flags
hung listlessly. The great volume of
smoke from ships guns and fortifica-
tions increased the difficulty of read
ing signals, and although the quarter
master reported that one was flying,
he added that he was unable to un-
derstand 1t because there was too lit
tie wind to blow the flags out.
The action was continued until every
gun of the enemy had ceased firing.
Then the ship dropped down to its
former position, and, after anchoring.
young Schley made visit to Admiral
Farragut to report. Farragut was on
the quarter deck and after responding
to the young mans salute, he said:
Captain, you begin early in life to
disobey orders. Did you see that sig
nal flying for nearly an hour to with
draw from action
This was blow, for Captain Schley
had felt that his action was entirely
creditable He stammered something
about the smoke and the difficulty of
reading signals.
81 don't want any of this Nelson
business in my squadron" said the ad-
miral, quickly, "about failing to see
signals"
The young man went on to explain
that it had been impossible to interpret
the signal, and that since he had been
given orders to destroy the citadel he
felt sure that he was to retire only
when that duty was done.
The admiral merely invited him into
his cabin When the door was closed
upon them, Farra gut said, smilingly:
81 have censured you. sir, on the quar-
ter deck for what appeared to be a
disregard of my orders. I now COM
mend you and your officers and men
for doing what you believed to be right
in the circumstances. Do 1t again
whenever, in your judgment. it Is nee
essary to carry out your conception of