...ont of Wagner, and thus were commenced the formidable preparations for the great attack upon it by land and sea on the 18th July, 1863, which is the subject of this address. was named after Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas M. Wagner , of the First regiment of South Carolina Regular Artillery, who was killed by the bursting of a gun at Fort Moultrie in July, 1863. It was a large bastioned earth-work enclosed on all sides, and wa...