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Desperate Assault at Fort Wagner 50 Years Ago
In July fifty years ago Federal forces under Strong attacked Battery Wagner on Morris Island near Charleston. The assault by 700 800 troops including the 54th Massachusetts led to heavy Confederate losses and a pivotal siege, with Colonel Shaw slain and Putnam mortally wounded before the breach was repelled.
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Charleston Harbor
Fort Wagner
Lee
Gettysburg
Potomac
George L. Kilmer
Wagner
Fort Sumter
Strong
Shaw
A. J. Palmer
Navy
Q. A. Gillmore
Truman Seymour
Anderson
H.S. Putnam
Hne
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment of
Robert G. Shaw
Seymour
Putnam
New Hampshire
W. B. Taliaferro
Taliaferro
Charleston
W. H. Ryan
Ryan
New York
Connecticut
Apollo
Colonel Putnam
Colonel Shaw
Forty-eighth
Boston
R. E. Lee
George G. Meade
Hagerstown
Virginia
Meade
Maryland
Sixth Michigan Cavalry
J. J. Pettigrew
Pickett
George C. Strong