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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 117 (search)
New Hampshire sharp-shooting.--A letter in the Philadelphia Bulletin from Poolsville, Md., June 20, says:
The New Hampshire boys held Conrad's Ferry; but as their guns would not carry a sufficient distance to do the enemy any harm, a detachment of twenty men were sent from our regiment to act as sharpshooters.
They picked off eight or ten of the rebels.
The New Hampshire men had been firing pistols and guns that did not reach half-way across the river.
The enemy's six-pound balls came thick and fast among our boys, but, luckily, none were hit. When grape-shot were fired they all squatted, and the shot passed over them.
So soon as a six-pound ball would strike the ground, the boys would make a dash and dig it out. They got six of these trophies.
The New Hampshire boys got the others.
One trick of the New Hampshire fellows was to get one of their men to mount on horseback, as a mark for their field-pieces.
As soon as they fired, he would drop from his horse, and the en
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 132 (search)
One of Floyd's performances.--It will be remembered that Floyd, during his unimpeded career of larceny and treason, found a number of the heaviest guns belonging to the United States which could not be readily shipped to the South, nor put into any other position where they would be unlikely to do that section injury, and that as a last resort he condemned and sold them as old iron.
A Patterson, (N. J.) firm bought a number of them for twenty dollars per ton. Upon coining to inspect them , they were found worth, as unmanufactured iron alone, three times the price paid for them.
Their hardness was such that it was found impossible to break them up for the furnace by the ordinary means, and a few of then were finally wrenched to pieces in a lathe.
The remainder were re-purchased for Government yester-day by a commission from the War Department, and found to be sound in every particular.--N. Y. Evening Post, June 20.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 171 (search)