One afternoon, with [Babe] Dahlgren near him in the dugout, a photographer asked Lou if he could take a photo of the two of them.
Lou agreed, until the photographer suggested that Dahlgren pose in a fielding position at first base, with Lou cheering him on.
McCarthy, fearful that Lou might fall, had whispered to Dahlgren, “Catch him if he starts to go down.”
It was captured from the enemy with Dahlgren, who had pillaged it from our opulent families in the country.
A challenge to halt Dahlgren answered by a threat, and the commander of the Confederate outpost gave the order instantly to fire.
A memoir of Admiral Dahlgren by his widow was published at Boston in 1882.
But for the Dahlgren guns, with two vents, some other plan is better.
I opened on them from the position which the troops occupy above the town, and from the Dahlgren battery on the mountains.
