Can anyone having a special interest in the Battle of Dam No. 1/Burnt
Chimneys VA help me with the newspaper title and date of
publication of the article copied below?  It had to have been published
between Apr 17 - Apr 29, 1862 in a Unionist newspaper.  This is all I have
of the newspaper page --- a neatly trimmed portion of an apparently longer
article describing the battle.

I'd also like to learn the first name and exact unit designation of Lt
Wagner.  Would the Topographical Engineers have been a Regular Army outfit?
I can't locate Lt Wagner at the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System site.
The Lt Daniels mentioned is Lt Nahum Daniels, in charge of a signal
detachment with the 3rd Wisconsin
Vols.

Also, what's a "case shot"?

Andy Anderson
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The gun which wounded Lieut. Wagner in the Topographical Engineers yesterday
is an iron piece, rather large, and apparently mounted on a field carriage.
It was only fired a few times during the day, the Rhode Island Battery
driving the gunners to cover, and apparently injuring their iron gun,
likewise silencing two brass pieces which the rebels brought to bear on the
battery.  Wagner behaved with great coolness; his left arm was shattered by
the shot, and his plane-table knocked to pieces.  With his one arm, he
mounted his horse and rode for surgical assistance, supporting the broken
arm with the hand of the other.  The injured member was amputated, and the
Lieutenant is doing well.

The signal party at this point, commanded by Lieutenant Daniels, is busy
arranging stations, and has already proved itself an important assistance to
the Generals of the army.  By their glasses the nature of the enemy's works
at this point is plainly distinguishable, rifle pits, masked guns,
earthworks, and field forts, a way back to woods, which are interlaced with
vines, and arranged like a gigantic fence.  Here and there long rows of
sharpened stakes pointing outwards and driven into the ground.  Behind and
connecting the works are covered ways.  Along one of these a carriage is
occasionally seen, supposed to contain Jeff. Davis.  A white horseman, too
(there is a ubiquitous white horseman who makes himself prominent wherever
the rebels are seen), gallops about the works, receiving the compliments of
the season with marked indifference.  Men, white and black, are shoveling in
the works all the time, the negroes especially being forced into exposed
places.  Litters are in service this morning within their lines, carrying
off the wounded or killed by our case shots.

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