. The military and naval history of the rebellion in the United States : with biographical sketches of deceased officers . ssign-ed to Gen. Q. A. Gillmore, who took the com-mand of the department. On the night of the3d of July he commenced his advance uponCharleston by the movement of troops to FollyIsland. There they remained as secret as pos-sible, and erected batteries to cover those of theenemy on the south ends of Morris Island. Onthe 10th the entire force which was requiredhaving arrived, the batteries opened upon theenemy, and when their guns were silenced acharge was made by the infant
. The military and naval history of the rebellion in the United States : with biographical sketches of deceased officers . ssign-ed to Gen. Q. A. Gillmore, who took the com-mand of the department. On the night of the3d of July he commenced his advance uponCharleston by the movement of troops to FollyIsland. There they remained as secret as pos-sible, and erected batteries to cover those of theenemy on the south ends of Morris Island. Onthe 10th the entire force which was requiredhaving arrived, the batteries opened upon theenemy, and when their guns were silenced acharge was made by the infantry, who hadcrossed to the island in boats, and the workscaptured. A despatch from Gen. Gillmore thusreports his movements: ITkadquartehs Department of the SoiTTn, IIn tue Field, Mokuis Island, S. C, July , J863, J Major-Gtneral J{. W. JIalleck, General-in-Chiff: i^iR: I h-ivc the honor to report that at five oclockon the morning of the 10th instant I made an attackupon the enemys foititicd position on the sonth endol Morris Island, and, after an engagement of tbreB MTLITAET AND NAYAL HISTORY OF THE KEBELLIOK 473. hours and a quarter, captured all his strongholds uponthat part of the island, and pushed forward my infau-try to within six hundred yards of Fort Wagner. We now hold all the island except about one mile onthe north end, which includes Fort Wagner and a bat-tery on Cummings Point, mounting at the presenttime fourteen or hfteen heavy guns in the aggregate. The assaulting column was gallantly led by Strong. It landed in small boats under cover ofmy batteries on Folly Island and four monitors ledby Rear-Admiral Dahlgren, which entered the mainchannel abreast of Slorris Island soon after our bat-teries opened. The monitors continued their fire dur-ing the day mostly on Fort Wagner. On the morning of the llth instant, at daybreak, aneffort was maije to carry Fort Wagner by assault. Theparapet was gained, but the supports recoiled underthe fire to which they
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