In Port Royal harbor.—The ball opens.—First naval engagement of the war.—Forts Walker and Beauregard.—Union fleet bombard the rebels.—Complete rout of the enemy.—Triumphant victory for the Union.—Great enthusiasm.—Connecticut lands the first troops.—Terrible scenes on land.—Rebel pigs and chickens.—Uncle Sam’s rations at a discount.—Warsaw Sound, Ga.—“Greybacks accumulate.”—“Sketch for special artist.”—Spotted fever.—Deaths daily.—The old Sixth unfit for duty.—
Ordered to Hilton Head.—Dawfuski Island Camp.—Jones Island on Savannah river.—Fort Vulcan built of mud.—Yankee ingenuity and cunning displayed.—High tides, &c.
Capture of Fort Pulaski.—Heavy bombardment.—Back to Dawfuski Island.—North Edisto Island blackberries help Uncle Sam’s pork to digest.—Across John’s Island.—Col. Chatfield’s speech, victory or death.—Tedious rain.—Guerillas cut off our supplies.—Three days without food.—50 cents for a “hard tack.”—Arrive at Legareville on the Stono river.—Cook rations.—Across the river to James Island.—Tom Grimball’s Plantation.—Rebel advance.—Battle of Secessionville.—Evacuation of James Island.—Go to Beaufort.—Band of the Sixth mustered out.—Expedition to Mackay’s point.—Battle of Pocotaligo.—Col. Chatfield and Lieut. Col. Speidel wounded.—Whole command return to Hilton Head.—The Sixth at Beaufort.—Death of our department commander Maj. Gen. Mitchell.
Off for Florida.—Land at Jacksonville.—Occupy houses instead of tents.—Skirmish with the enemy.—Streets barricaded to prevent incursions of the rebel cavalry.—Sermon by Rev. Mr. French.—Evacuation of Jacksonville by Union troops.—Town fired by the 8th Maine and a colored regiment.—Back to Beaufort.—Thirty-five hours in the town.—Embark again—a fizzle.—Back to Hilton Head.—Off again; land at Folly Island.—Battery building at night.—Speak in whispers.—Up Folly river.—Capture of the southern portion of Morris Island.—Brilliant charge of the Sixth.—Capture a rebel flag.—Assault on Fort
Wagner.—Terrible scene at night.—Awful carnage.—Col. Chatfield twice wounded.—Union force repulsed.—The ranks of the Sixth terribly shattered.—Ordered to Hilton Head.—Death of Col. Chatfield.
Our new Colonel.—Great dissatisfaction thereby.—Part of the Sixth re-enlist.—Deserters shot.—Death of Captain Allen.—Up to Virginia under Butler.—Ascend the James river.—Bermuda Hundred.—Skirmish with the enemy.—Battle of Chester Station.—Death of Captain Wilcox.—Advance on Drury’s Bluff.—One of Butler’s “masterly movements.”—Battle of Drury’s Bluff.—Union forces “change front to the rear.”—Resignation of our new Colonel.—Appointment of Captain Rockwell as Colonel of the Sixth.—President Lincoln rides by.—“What mean those cheers.”—Battle of Strawberry Plains.—Hancock’s works.—Battle of Deep Run.—In holes around Petersburg.—Discharge of the non re-enlisted men.—Their reception in New Haven.