Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-07-18
a2S'I. WAR
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Cpd OHIO AT FORT GREGG
rhirtu.six Men Were Lost. Directly 10
Frs,vs of Fort-Losses- Othes
iments Suffered

r,ba. First division. Tweuty-fourtnv
corps. was near Hatchers Hun' Oho
evening before the battle al fope
Gregg. and all night in line In a. cio-
yer field
Colonel West, commanding the SlS~
ty-seoond Ohio, about ten O'CLOCK 'ilA1
night asked that | be detailed lroin
company X to report to. General O'-
horns headquarters, when. one Hoii"
each regiment of the brigade was es-
corted. outside of the lines to- ma OUT
if it was possible for men to cross d.
swamp reported in our front, writes
T. r. Shaw OF Coin, Ia, In. the Nd
tional tribune After about TOUR
hours time, having located. the en-
emy's works and getting the inGorma--
ton wanted, l reported to General Us
borns headquarters. The general. theh
wrote me a pass. excusing me from
duty for five days.
About that time terrible cannon
ade began towards Petersburg and
lasted until daylight. About sunuo'
the Sixty-second was ordered IN line
in advance of the First brigade, First
division, Twenty-fourth corps. l took,
my place in the ranks, and. we dou'
ble-quicked about five miles, Wnen
we formed line OF battle and were OF
dered to deploy as skirmishers. our
right was on the rebel line al workS
facing Fort Gregg. some two miles
away
There wasn't a man OF any corps
ahead of US, except a, disorganized
mass of rebels in the ravines and be-
hind the stumps, which we drove
before us, regardless of the shells
OF the rebel forts. We could. not see
Fort Gregg at this time, il being be-
yond a ridge, but there was three
gun battery at bend in the line or
works that shelled us, and as we got
near it gave us canister, but our left
flank advanced until they could get
cEossfre on the battery and took 1t
when we drove everything over the
ridge and came in plain view of Fort
Gregg.
We kept driving their men, until
we finally made a rush for an old
road in our front running parallel to
the fort and a splendid position for
a skirnlish line, where we annoyed
the fort, and kept the gunner down
until some time after noon, when we
were recalled. The troops were then
massing for a charge. AS was near
Colonel West q staff officer told. him
to withdraw his men behind the ridge
and let them go to dinner, and they
need not so in the charge, as they
the (Sixty-second Ohio had done
enough. But when the charge was
formed Colonel West called to all that
wanted to follow him to fall in. Most
Of the regiment responded and adj
vanced up to the front of the fort.
Captain Griffin quotes Capt. H. l.
Carr as saying that no part of Os-
born's division struck Fort Gregg.
Now, the Sixty-second Ohio lost 30
men directly in front OF the fort The
Thirty ninth Illinois had heavy loss.
also the Sixty-seventh Ohio. None of
Turner's men ever were ahead OF
these regiments. Captain Griffin says
the colors of the Twelfth West Vir-
ginia and the One Hundred and Six
tenth Ohio were planted on the south
side of the fort. They never were in
that position, and the reason they (the
Twelfth West Virginia and One Hun
dred and Sixteenth Ohio, Osborn's di-
visfon) went in at the northwest angle
was in hand-to-hand encounter at
the south, and, as the captain admits,
held the garrison at that point. The
Twelfth West Virginia. the One Hun
dred and Sixteenth Ohio and others
went in at that corner Of the fort.
while Osborn's men went in at the
same time at the front