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Title: Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 (electronic resource)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Derby, W. P. (William P.)
Subjects: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 27th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter Print. Co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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ery on Genl Wessellsstaff. For five hours this force withstood the combinedattack, the entire artillery of the enemy and the Albemarle concentrating a fierce fire of grape, shell and solid shot uponthe fort until the unequal contest was ended by the surren-der of Fort Williams. Fort Grey, finding all the otherdefences captured, capitulated. The enemy heartlessly mas-sacred all negroes with arms, besides many of the NorthCarolina Volunteers. Our loss was fifteen killed, one hun-dred wounded, and sixteen hundred prisoners; that of theenemy ninety-five killed, and six hundred and thirty-fivewounded. After the defeat of our naval forces by theAlbemarle, Capt. Horace I. Hodges, assistant quarter-master, volunteered to carry dispatches to the fleet below, indoing which his boat was capsized and the captain drowned.C$ipt° Hodges was born at Savoy, June 12, 1818, a graduateof Williams College 1838, studied law with Bates & Hunt-ino-ton, Northampton, and with the exception of three years,
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Captain Ira B. Sampson. rLYMOUTII SURRENDERED CAPT. SAMrSOX. 239 practised law or resided at that place. He was influentialin politics, a trial justice, judge of insolvency, and commis-sioner for Hampshire County. He was commissioned cap-tain and assistant quartermaster 1863, with assignment tothis post, and died at the age of forty-six years, leaving awidow and two children. Ira B. Sampson was born in Middlefield, April 22, 1840,and received a sergeant-majors warrant in the Twenty-Seventh Mass. Regt., dated Dec. 7, 1861. He was com-missioned a second lieutenant March 1, 1862, and at thetime of his resignation, was under recommendation forpromotion with us. He was present in the marches andbattles of the Twenty-Seventh Regiment until the closeof the siege of Washington, N. C, receiving honorablemention for a successful movement from Bachelors Creek,against Whitfords guerrillas. He was promoted as cap-tain of Company G, Second Mass. Heavy Artillery, and afterseveral months of recruitin

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