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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 6: siege of Wagner. (search)
he necessary order for evacuation. A picket detail of one hundred men went out from the Fifty-fourth camp at 5 P. M. on the 6th. Our usual detail was at work in the front under the engineers. It was not until two o'clock on the morning of September 7 that the officers and men of the regiment remaining in camp were aroused, fell into line, and with the colored brigade marched up over the beach line to a point just south of the Beacon house, where these regiments rested, constituting the rew the blacks,—the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts and Third United States Colored Troops. General Beauregard reports his loss during the siege as a total of 296, exclusive of his captured. But the official War Records show that from July 18 to September 7 the Confederate loss was a total of 690. The Federal loss during the same period by the same authority was but 358. Despite the exposure of the Fifty-fourth details day and night with more or less officers and men at the front, the casualt
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 11: Seige of Charleston (search)
posed to his fire. The enclosure was 228 by 304 feet, and formed of palisading of pine posts, ten feet above ground, supporting a platform from which sentinels could watch the prisoners. The dead line, marked by a rope stretched on posts, was twenty feet inside the palisading. Good A tents, each to hold four men, were pitched and arranged, forming eight streets. The ground was clean, dry, quartz sand. Several days before, the Fifty-fourth was assigned to guard this prison camp. On September 7, Colonel Hallowell, with Companies D, E, G, and K marched to the landing, where the steamer Cossack soon arrived with the Confederates. The escort was composed entirely of colored soldiers. First came three companies of the Twenty-first United States Colored Troops in column, then the prisoners, flanked on either side by two companies of the Fifty-fourth, the rear closed by two companies of the Twentyfirst in column. In this order the Confederates were taken to the camp. This body o
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
Grove, R. I.; dis. Wounded 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Simmons, John Corpl. 24, mar.; foundry man; Kalamazoo, Mich. 23 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Simms, Abram C. Corpl. 20, sin.; farmer; Oxford, O. 28 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Oxford, O. Slider, John 21, sin.; laborer; Mercersburg, Pa. 22 Apl 63; died 28 Jly 65 Charleston, S. C. Diarrhea. $50. Smith, Baltimore 41, sin.; carpenter; Cincinnati, O. 28 Apl 63; missing 18 Jly 63 Ft Wagner. $50. Smith, Grimms Z. 23, mar.; artist; Boston. 7 Sep. 63; deserted 11 Jly 65 Charleston, S. C. $50. Smith, Henry 22, sin.; farmer; Niles, Mich. 23 Apl 63; died 27 Dec 63 Morris Id. S. C. of disease. $50. Smith, James H. Corpl. 22, sin.; laborer; Harrisburg, Pa. 26 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Smith, Louis 25, mar.; painter; Columbus, O. 28 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Smith, William Corpl. 22, sin.; laborer; Morgan Co. Va. 29 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Stevenson, William 18, sin.; laborer; Fayetteville, Pa 22 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Washingto