under General Strong, ascended Folly River in boats, and at daybreak on the 10th, after a desperate resistance and under a galling fire, effected a landing on Morris Island in the face of the enemy's guns, and charged and carried the fortifications, capturing during the day 125 prisoners and two battle flags... The regiment was at the front during the whole day, but lost only ten men.
    "On July 18th, 1863, the Sixth led the charge upon the sea face of Fort Wagner. In this charge Colonel Chatfield, who resigned command of a brigade to lead his regiment, received his death wound... Color Sergeant Gustave DeBonge was killed, also six others who took the colors one after the other, and Captain F.B. Osborn finally rescued and saved the flag. The Sixth, almost unaided, held an angle of the fort for about three hours, but not being supported, was compelled to retire, a portion of the regiment being captured. The regiment took into the charge four hundred men, and its loss was about one hundred and forty, or thirty-five per cent of the number engaged."
    Even the Southern opposition recognized the courage of the Sixth - a southern writer wrote in 1886 that 'Across the narrow and fatal strength before the fort, every inch of which was swept by a hurricane of fire, a besom of destruction, the Sixth Connecticut, Colonel John L. Chatfield, charged with such undaunted resolution upon the southeast salient, that they succeeded, in the very face of hell, one may say, in capturing it.
    "What though their victory was a barren achievement? What though for three hours they were penned in, no support daring to follow them? Friends and foe alike, now, as then, must honor and salute them as the bravest of the brave."
    The battle scene, and Chatfield's final injuries are described in Volume III of the Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut from the Aboriginal Period to the Year 1895, edited by Joseph Anderson, D.D. That volume describes the last battle of Chatfield as follows:
    "He had reluctantly allowed the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts to have the right of the line in the advance on the fort. Under the concentrated fire of Wagner and Sumter and the batteries of James Island, the Massachusetts regiment, obliquing, left the Sixth uncovered. They advanced steadily