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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 119 19 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 111 3 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 110 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 77 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 74 0 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The siege of Morris Island. (search)
d. General W. W. H. Davis. The siege of Morris Island has passed into history. The wearisome daainst a landing from boats. Directly south of Morris lies Folly Island, separated from it by an inls, viz.: possess and hold the south end of Morris Island, reduce Fort Wagner, and destroy Sumter foFort Wagner, and destroy Sumter for offensive purposes. The Secretary of the Navy gave him to understand that if these things were aned fire upon him. The assault was made on Morris Island the morning of the 10th of July. It was an the operations a fatal mistake was made. Fort Wagner should have been immediately assailed, and h, if successful, would compel the garrison of Wagner to surrender. The enemy discovered the approah the bridle in his hand. The siege of Morris Island, or, as it will be known in history, The os astonished both friend and foe. Then, again, Wagner was approached over ground much less in width s foremost engineer, and his operations on Morris Island considered one of its most creditable perf[11 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Torpedo service in Charleston harbor. (search)
r. The New Ironsides never fired another shot after this attack upon her. She remained some time at her anchorage off Morris Island, evidently undergoing repairs; she was then towed to Port Royal, probably to fit her for her voyage to Philadelphia, he battle of Chickamauga), commenced building an iron-clad land battery at Cumming's Point, the northern extremity of Morris Island, and the point nearest to Fort Sumter--that is, about thirteen hundred yards distant. This battery was to be built ofnot great at that distance, but the piece had great accuracy, and several of the shells entered the embrasures facing Morris Island. One of the officers of the garrison remarked after the surrender, that when they first heard the singular whizzing, isabled and silenced in a few days. Such a result at that time would have been necessarily followed by the evacuation of Morris and Sullivan's Islands, and, soon after, of Charleston itself, for I had not yet had time to complete and arm the system
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, June, 1863. (search)
n, on James Island, Fort Cummins Point, and Fort Wagner, on Morris Island. In fact, both sides of Morris Island. In fact, both sides of the harbor for several miles appear to bristle with forts mounting heavy guns. The bar, beyond Point, and (after entering a narrow creek) Fort Wagner on our left. The latter is a powerful, wel heavy guns, and it completely cuts across Morris Island at the end nearest to Fort Sumter. General Ripley pointed at Fort Wagner with some pride. We landed near the house of the colonel who comstake in not fortifying the further end of Morris Island and keeping a larger garrison there, for wet with no fortification until they reached Fort Wagner. and borrowed his horses to ride to the furs to blow up piles or other obstacles. Morris Island is a miserable, low, sandy desert, and at rleston, was to land on Morris Island, take Forts Wagner and Cummings Point, and then turn their guns d'armee. At 5.30 P. M. the firing on Morris Island became distinctly audible. Captain Mitche[8 more...]
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, The military situation-plans for the campaign-sheridan assigned to command of the cavalry-flank movements-forrest at Fort Pillow-General Banks's expedition-colonel Mosby-an incident of the Wilderness campaign (search)
st of the Mississippi we held substantially all north of the Memphis and Charleston Railroads as far east as Chattanooga, thence along the line of the Tennessee and Holston rivers, taking in nearly all of the State of Tennessee. West Virginia was in our hands; and that part of old Virginia north of the Rapidan and east of the Blue Ridge we also held. On the sea-coast we had Fortress Monroe and Norfolk in Virginia; Plymouth, Washington and New Berne in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris islands, Hilton Head, Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in South Carolina and Georgia; Fernandina, St. Augustine, Key West and Pensacola in Florida. The balance of the Southern territory, an empire in extent, was still in the hands of the enemy. Sherman, who had succeeded me in the command of the military division of the Mississippi, commanded all the troops in the territory west of the Alleghenies and north of Natchez, with a large movable force about Chattanooga. His command was subdivided int
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Chapter 10: life at camp Shaw. (search)
ent had been lower down that same river, and we felt at home. The new camp was named Camp Shaw, in honor of the noble young officer who had lately fallen at Fort Wagner, under circumstances which had endeared him to all the men. As it happened, they had never seen him, nor was my regiment ever placed within immediate reach of t his anxieties, if he really had any. This interview had occurred on the 4th of June. Shaw and his regiment had very soon been ordered to Georgia, then to Morris Island; Fort Wagner had been assaulted, and he had been killed. Most of the men knew about the circumstances of his death, and many of them had subscribed towards a Fort Wagner had been assaulted, and he had been killed. Most of the men knew about the circumstances of his death, and many of them had subscribed towards a monument for him,--a project which originated with General Saxton, and which was finally embodied in the Shaw school-house at Charleston. So it gave us all pleasure to name this camp for him, as its predecessor had been named for General Saxton. The new camp was soon brought into good order. The men had great ingenuity in bui
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Chapter 13: Conclusion. (search)
on Willtown Revear (River) and thank the Lord did not lose but seven men out of our regiment. In February, 1865, the regiment was ordered to Charleston to do provost and guard duty, in March to Savannah, in June to Hamburg and Aiken, in September to Charleston and its neighborhood, and was finally mustered out of service — after being detained beyond its three years, so great was the scarcity of troops — on the 9th of February, 1866. With dramatic fitness this muster-out took place at Fort Wagner, above the graves of Shaw and his men. I give in the Appendix the farewell address of Lieutenant-Colonel Trowbridge, who commanded the regiment from the time I left it. Brevet Brigadier-General W. T. Bennett, of the One Hundred and Second United States Colored Troops, who was assigned to the command, never actually held it, being always in charge of a brigade. The officers and men are scattered far and wide. One of our captains was a member of the South Carolina Constitutional Conven
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Appendix E: farewell address of Lt.-Col. Trowbridge. (search)
Appendix E: farewell address of Lt.-Col. Trowbridge. Headquarters 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers, Morris Island, S. C., February 9, 1866. General orders, no. 1. comrades,--The hour is at hand when we must separate forever, and nothing can ever take from us the pride we feel, when we look back upon the history of the First South Carolina Volunteers,--the first black regiment that ever bore arms in defence of freedom on the continent of America. the result of your fidelity and obedience, you have won your freedom. And O, how great the reward! It seems fitting to me that the last hours of our existence as a regiment should be passed amidst the unmarked graves of your comrades,--at Fort Wagner. Near you rest the bones of Colonel Shaw, buried by an enemy's hand, in the same grave with his black soldiers, who fell at his side; where, in future, your children's children will come on pilgrimages to do homage to the ashes of those that
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 29 (search)
equently, that they were landing troops on Morris Island. Up to 3 o'clock we have no tidings of thrning the Yankees assaulted the battery on Morris Island, and were repulsed in two minutes, with a the land! The enemy are established on Morris Island, and the fate of Charleston is in doubt. we learn that the enemy are established on Morris Island, having taken a dozen of our guns and howided that it would be impracticable to hold Morris Island, even if the enemy were driven from it at d an attack of the enemy on the battery on Morris Island with heavy loss-perhaps 1500--while his isce him rectus in curio. Beauregard says Fort Wagner, which has made such a successful defense on Morris Island, was located by Gen. Pemberton, and this is evidence of some military skill. But aham has demanded the free negroes taken on Morris Island, to be punished (death) according to the Sl, would be given why the enemy approached Morris Island before being observed. So, omitting all n
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXIX. August, 1863 (search)
t and hostages three of our men for three free negroes taken on Morris Island. The government here has, at last, indicated blockade-goodsr-General. August 18 There is heavy firing, day and night, on Wagner's battery and Fort Sumter. The enemy use 15-inch guns; but Sumter nemy, he has constructed another which will render that part of Morris Island untenable. But he relied upon holding Sumter; and there is a vh face have been silenced by the land batteries of the enemy on Morris Island; and this account is two days old. What has taken place since, ard, the people are saying, no lodgment could have been made on Morris Island by the enemy, and Sumter and Charleston would have been saved ftucky, will not be executed. Nor will the officers taken on Morris Island, serving with the negroes, suffer death in accordance with the ews to transpire) that at the second assault on Battery Wagner, Morris Island, the enemy captured and held the rifle-pits. This, perhaps, in
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXX. September, 1863 (search)
or the defense of South Carolina, was received to-day. Knowing the honorable gentleman's intimate relations with Beauregard, the Secretary criticises the conduct of the general in permitting the enemy to establish himself on the lower end of Morris Island-allowing a grove to remain, concealing the erection of batteries, etc. etc. Mr. Miles in reply asserts the fact that Gen. B. did the utmost that could be accomplished with the force and means left at his disposal by the government; and thatember 7 Batteries Wagner and Gregg and Fort Sumter have been evacuated! But this is not yet the capture of Charleston. Gen. Beauregard telegraphed yesterday that he was preparing (after thirty-six hours incessant bombardment) to evacuate Morris Island; which was done, I suppose, last night. He feared the loss of the garrisons, if he delayed longer; and he said Sumter was silenced. Well, it is understood the great Blakely is in position on Charleston wharf. If the enemy have no knowledge
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