Comments on: Battle of Santa Rosa Island http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-santa-rosa-island.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mick schwa http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-santa-rosa-island.htm#comment-364035 mick schwa Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:17:36 +0000 #comment-364035 "At about 3:30 a.m., scouts from Chalmers' column were fired upon by a lone Zouave sentinel. The shot went wild, and the sentry was quickly dispatched; but the alarm had been sounded. Wilson hastened to form his command on the parade ground in front of the camp hospital. Guards informed him that about 2,000 armed men in two columns were marching upon us; that the pickets were all attacked about the same time. Wilson immediately sent his orderly to Fort Pickens to inform Brown of his situation." please see' http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/book/The_History_of_a_Volunteer_Regiment.pdf and read the prison experience of John J Shaugheessy "At about 3:30 a.m., scouts from Chalmers' column were fired upon by a lone Zouave sentinel. The shot went wild, and the sentry was quickly dispatched; but the alarm had been sounded. Wilson hastened to form his command on the parade ground in front of the camp hospital. Guards informed him that about 2,000 armed men in two columns were marching upon us; that the pickets were all attacked about the same time. Wilson immediately sent his orderly to Fort Pickens to inform Brown of his situation."
please see'
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/book/The_History_of_a_Volunteer_Regiment.pdf

and read the prison experience of John J Shaugheessy

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