As the works of Union engineers closed in on Fort Wagner, guarding Charleston Harbor on Morris Island, several attempts were made to clear the advanced Confederate pickets in rifle pits about two hundred yards in front of the fort. The 24th Massachusetts carried out the final successful assault against the 79 defenders of the 61st North Carolina, killing or capturing 76 of them. Fort Wagner was evacuated ten days later. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Frances Harding Casstevens, Clingman's Brigade in the Confederacy, 1862-1865 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc., 2002), 123-124.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
