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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
oward marched farther south and rebuilt King's bridge, while Kilpatrick reconnoitered Fort McAllister, upon which fire was opened by DeGress' battery on the 13th. Hazen's division, which, with J. E. Smith's division, had marched by Statesboro where a number of their foragers had been killed and captured by Confederate cavalry, and road, and it was not until 4:45 that the assaulting column of nine regiments closed up around the fort, which was held by Maj. George W. Anderson and 250 men. General Hazen reported that the fort was carried at precisely 5 p. m. At close quarters the fighting became desperate and deadly. Just outside the works a line of torpedoesg the garrison through the fort to their bomb-proofs, from which they still fought, and only succumbed as each man was individually overpowered. The report of General Hazen is as high a compliment as the brave Confederate garrison of Fort McAllister could desire. The Federal loss in the assault was 24 killed and 110 wounded.