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 ===================================================== 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. To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html