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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 583 9 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 520 4 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 354 138 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 297 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 260 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 226 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 203 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 160 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 137 137 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 129 37 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
country. James Amory Perkins. First Lieutenant 24th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), September 2, 1861; killed at Morris Island, S. C., August 26, 1863. James Amory Perkins was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on the 9th of July, 1836. His fatwhich he captured Fort Wagner and silenced Fort Sumter. Folly Island was first seized, and then a landing effected on Morris Island, at the northern extremity of which was Fort Wagner. Some of Lieutenant Perkins's letters written at this time, besiey are. But we have got to be careful, and particularly prompt in getting out of the way if they advance in force. Morris Island, August 11. At last I have another chance to write you. It happens to be decently cool at this moment, that is, set to work, and fall sick again. So it is, only worse, in the other companies. The sun is too much for any one. Morris Island, August 17. The fight has begun. Our batteries opened this morning about six o'clock. There had been a good dea
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
olonel 54th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), April 17, 1863; killed at Fort Wagner, S. C., July 18, 1863. during the years 1859 and 1860 there mightcommon character. This was Robert Shaw, who now lies buried on Morris Island, in Charleston Harbor, one of the many thousand young men who hg. Terry went there originally only to create a diversion from Morris Island, and it was useless to stay and risk being driven off, after Mowo days. It seems like old times in the Army of the Potomac. Morris Island, July 18. We are in General Strong's brigade. We came up ut half past 9, A. M., and thence marched to the point opposite Morris Island, reaching there about two o'clock in the afternoon. They were ays, and know how he regarded them. The march across Folly and Morris Island was over a very sandy road, and was very wearisome. When they prisoner by the Rebels the morning after the assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, July 19, 1863. While being conducted into the fort I s
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1865. (search)
on Russel. Sergeant 44th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), September 12, 1862; first Lieutenant 54th Mass. Vols. March 23, 1863; Captain, May 11, 1863; killed at Fort Wagner, S. C., July 18, 1863. Cabot Jackson Russel was born in New York on the 21st of July, 1844. He was the son of William C. Russel, a lawyer of that city, and Sar force of the enemy. They behaved very well, and were complimented by the commanding general. The following letter gives an account of the action. off Morris Island, July 17, 1863. dear father,—We have had an engagement on a small scale; all officers safe, but alas for my poor men! Simpkins, Willard, and myself were ormed fifty yards in advance of the old one. On the night of the 17th instant, orders were received to join General Strong's brigade, then at the front of Morris Island. About three o'clock of the afternoon of the 18th, the Fifty-fourth reported for duty to Brigadier-General Strong, and was placed by him at the head of an ass