The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 17, In Two Parts. Part 1, Reports. Page: 707
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ploded a caisson within the enemy's intrenchments, killing several men
and all its horses.
When the enemy and his works had been visibly damaged by the fire
of artillery General A. J. Sniith deployed nine regiments of Burbridge's
and Landram's brigades, supported by three regiments in reserve, and
steadily moving forward, drove the enemy's advance toward the open
ground in front of the right of his defenses. Seeking shelter behind a
cluster of cabins, Colonel Guppey, with the Twenty-third Wisconsin,
was ordered to charge and dislodge him, which he promptly did, forc-
ing him to flee to his intrenchments; after which the same regiments,
led by their tried and gallant brigade commanders, under the personal
direction of General Smith, continued their advance until they had ap-
proached within 200 yards of the fort, when General Smith sent back
word that he could almost shake hands with the enemy.
Meanwhile Colonel Sheldon, under General Osterhaus' opportune
direction, had ordered up Cooley's battery within 200 yards of the right
of the enemy's defenses, and deployed the One hundred and eighteenth
Illinois on its right, and massed the One hundred and twentieth Ohio
on its left, holding the Sixty-ninth Indiana in reserve. Both infantry
and artillery replied to the galling fire of the enemy until the rifle-pits
of the latter in front were nearly cleared. Seizing the opportunity the
One hundred and twentieth Ohio dashed forward to carry the east face
of the fort, and only failed because superadded to the fosse there was
an impassable ravine in their way.
Colonel De Courcy's brigade, which with General Blair's had borne
the brunt of the repulse near Vicksburg, was left near the transports
to protect them and to guard the approach across the swamp by which
General Steele had countermarched, and remained there until about 3
o'clock, when it was ordered up. Having re-enforced General Sherman,
at his request, at 3.15 o'clock, by sending the Twenty-third Wisconsin,
Nineteenth Kentucky, and Ninety-seventh Illinois from General Smith's
division, to take position farther to the right, and the engagement, not-
withstanding the guns of the fort had been silenced by the combined
fire of my artillery and the gunboats, being sharp and general on both
sides, I ordered an assault.
Burbridge's brigade, with the two regiments of Landram's which had
been sent to its right, and the One hundred and twentieth Ohio, of
Colonel Sheldon's brigade, bearing the brunt, dashed forward under a
deadly fire quite to the enemy's intrenchments; the Sixteenth Indiana,
Lieut. Col. John M. Orr, with the Eighty-third Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel
Baldwin, of Burbridge's brigade, and the One hundred and twentieth
Ohio, Col. D. French, of Colonel Sheldon's brigade, being the first to
enter the fort. Presenting himself at the entrance of the fort General
Burbridge was halted by the guard, who denied that they had surren-
dered until he called their attention to the white flag and ordered them
to ground arms. Immediately after, meeting General Churchill, com-
mandant of the post, and Colonel Dunnington, of the rebel navy, com-
manding the fort, he referred the former to me, from whom I received
the formal surrender of the post, its armament, garrison, and all its
stores.
Farther to the enemy's left his intrenchments were stormed by Gen-
eral Sherman's command who immediately ordered General Steele,
whose zeal and daring added to his previous renown, to push forward
one of his brigades along to the bayou and cut off the enemy's escape
in that direction.
Colonel Lindsey, as soon as a gunboat had passed above the fort,707
CHAP. XXIX.])
ARKANSAS POST.
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