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Fort Sumter National Monument marker of the Map of Charleston Harbor defenses. Fort Wagner or Battery Wagner was a beachhead fortification on Morris Island, South Carolina, that covered the southern approach to Charleston Harbor.
Map of the charge of the 54th Massachusetts Depiction of the battle in the painting The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground. The Second Battle of Fort Wagner, also known as the Second Assault on Morris Island or the Battle of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, was fought on July 18, 1863, during the American Civil War.
The ground the Union sappers were digging through was shallow sand with a muddy base. The trenching efforts also began to accidentally uncover Union dead from the previous assaults on Fort Wagner. Disease and bad water plagued soldiers on both sides. "Map of Charleston Harbor Showing Union and Rebel Batteries to September 1863."
On January 9, 1861, the first shots of the American Civil War were fired from cannons by cadets of The Citadel at the Star of the West as the ship tried to resupply Fort Sumter. Morris Island was heavily fortified to defend Charleston Harbor, with the fortifications centered on Fort Wagner. Battery Gregg was also on the island. [1]
Map of Fort Wagner I Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. On July 10, Union shot artillery on Folly Island (which had been occupied in April 1863) and naval gunfire from Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren's four ironclad warships bombarded the Confederate defenses protecting the southern end of Morris Island.
Map of Grimball's Landing Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. To draw Confederate forces away from reinforcing Fort Wagner, Brig. Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore designed two feints. One force was sent up Stono River to threaten the Charleston & Savannah Railroad bridge.
The Chinese spy balloon that traversed across the US in 2023 was secretly fitted out with American technology that may have allowed it to spy on Americans.
Morris Island was the location of Fort Wagner; the Second Battle of Fort Wagner was depicted in the 1989 film Glory. Bermudian First Sergeant Robert John Simmons of Company B of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment penned a letter from Folly Island shortly before he was mortally wounded at Fort Wagner.