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UNION ASSAULT UPON THE THREE-GUN BATTERY, ROANOKE ISLAND . (SEE MAP, PAGE 642.)FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH.
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was at this point that Colonel De Monteil was killed. Seeing that it wouldhe almost impossible to get through the deep mud, I had made up my mindto face to the front and make an effort to charge the work, and after amoment’s consultation with. Lieutenant-Colonel Betts and Captain Jardine,who commanded the right company, I ordered my bugler to sound the charge.At that moment I heard a great cheer down the line, and, looking in thatdirection, discovered that Major Kimball had broken the regiment in twoparts and was heading the left companies in a direct charge up a causewayrunning through the center of the field of fallen timber directly to the sally-port covered by a 24-pounder howitzer. Soon the right companies joined,and all entered the work, pell-mell, together. As the column advanced,the men crowded each other from the causeway, and soon the whole front ofthe work was covered with an animated sea of red fezzes. The men of Com-pany C were the first to cross the ditch and enter the work. About the sametime, the 21st Massachusetts and the 51st New York came into the work fromthe left.
The officers of those two regiments claimed that their colors were thefirst on the parapet; if so, it was because the colors of the 9th New York