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Second Battle of Fort Wagner (view source)
Revision as of 20:32, December 15, 2010
, 20:32, December 15, 2010Created page with "{{ACWbattle |name=Second Battle of Fort Wagner<br/><small>Second Assault, Morris Island</small> |image= |begin=July 18, 1863 |end=September 7, 1863 |place=City of Charleston, Sou..."
{{ACWbattle
|name=Second Battle of Fort Wagner<br/><small>Second Assault, Morris Island</small>
|image=
|begin=July 18, 1863
|end=September 7, 1863
|place=City of Charleston, South Carolina
|theater=Lower Seaboard Theater
|campaign=Operations against Defenses of Charleston
|result=Confederate victory
|combatants1=
|combatants2=
|commanders1=[[Quincy Gillmore]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[P.G.T. Beauregard]]<br/>General, CSA
|strength1=5,000
|strength2=1,800
|casualties1='''1,515'''
|casualties2='''174'''
}}
After the July 11 assault on Fort Wagner failed, Gillmore reinforced his beachhead on Morris Island. At dusk July 18, Gillmore launched an attack spearheaded by the [[54th Massachusetts Infantry]], a black regiment. The unit’s colonel, [[Robert Gould Shaw]], was killed. Members of the brigade scaled the parapet but after brutal hand-to-hand combat were driven out with heavy casualties. The Federals resorted to siege operations to reduce the fort. This was the fourth time in the war that black troops played a crucial combat role, proving to skeptics that they would fight bravely if only given the chance. (''NPS summary'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Defenses of Charleston}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1863}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]
|name=Second Battle of Fort Wagner<br/><small>Second Assault, Morris Island</small>
|image=
|begin=July 18, 1863
|end=September 7, 1863
|place=City of Charleston, South Carolina
|theater=Lower Seaboard Theater
|campaign=Operations against Defenses of Charleston
|result=Confederate victory
|combatants1=
|combatants2=
|commanders1=[[Quincy Gillmore]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[P.G.T. Beauregard]]<br/>General, CSA
|strength1=5,000
|strength2=1,800
|casualties1='''1,515'''
|casualties2='''174'''
}}
After the July 11 assault on Fort Wagner failed, Gillmore reinforced his beachhead on Morris Island. At dusk July 18, Gillmore launched an attack spearheaded by the [[54th Massachusetts Infantry]], a black regiment. The unit’s colonel, [[Robert Gould Shaw]], was killed. Members of the brigade scaled the parapet but after brutal hand-to-hand combat were driven out with heavy casualties. The Federals resorted to siege operations to reduce the fort. This was the fourth time in the war that black troops played a crucial combat role, proving to skeptics that they would fight bravely if only given the chance. (''NPS summary'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Defenses of Charleston}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1863}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]