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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fifty Dollars reward (search)
, and took possession of battery Wagner. The 54th Massachusetts (negro) regiment was placed there to garrison the post, and their regimental colors — the State flag of Massachusetts--was soon waving over the battery. The enemy, however, were not suffered long to hold their newly acquired domain in quiet. Before day Fort Moultrie had opened upon them from the opposite side of the harbor, and the indefatigable gunners of battery Simkins had turned their pieces against the now hostile precincts of Wagner. During the morning a party of mounted Yankee officers galloped along the beach towards battery Gregg and rode upon the parapet of that work, gazing into the harbor and at the city, which they doubtless have come to regard as a "promised land." Their meditations were soon rudely interrupted by a shell from Capt. Mitchell's battery. As the shell burst one of the number was seen to fall from his horse, and the others scampered from their lookout with the most undignified haste.