. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ion, liO killed, 184-1 wounded,187 missing; Confed., 2500 killed andwounded. 1800 missing (estimate). Gen. Tilghman killed. 17.— Big Black River, Miss. Union, Carrsand Osterhaus divisions, ThirteenthCorps, McClernand; Confed.,same as at Champions Hill on the : Union, 39 killed, 237 wounded,3 missing; Confed., 600 killed andwounded (estimate), 1751 captured. 18 to July 4.—Siege of Vicksburg, , Army of the Tennessee, com-manded b
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ion, liO killed, 184-1 wounded,187 missing; Confed., 2500 killed andwounded. 1800 missing (estimate). Gen. Tilghman killed. 17.— Big Black River, Miss. Union, Carrsand Osterhaus divisions, ThirteenthCorps, McClernand; Confed.,same as at Champions Hill on the : Union, 39 killed, 237 wounded,3 missing; Confed., 600 killed andwounded (estimate), 1751 captured. 18 to July 4.—Siege of Vicksburg, , Army of the Tennessee, com-manded by ] L^. S. Grant;Ninth Corps, Thirteenth Corps, Fif-teenth Corps, Sixteenth Corps (detach-ment), and Seventeenth Corps, andgunboat fleet, commanded by AdmiralD. D. Porter; Confed., Army of De-fense, Gen. J. C. Fort Hill on May Inli andassault on the 20th, in Green was killed; Lorings(portion), Bowens, Stevensons, For-neys, Smiths divisions, forces underGen. J. E. .Johnston and 7 river bat-teries. Losses: Included in the tablefor July 4. AssaultgeneralConfed. No record fomid.[334]. THE NEVER-SURRENDERED FORT MOULTRIE. BESIECiED ArUIl, l(» fi, 1863 This is no hastily constructed battery, hut the remains of a fori olilcr llian Sumter itself, as is shown l>ythe brick walls and the,permanent emplacement of the guns. It may be that this was the very piece ofordnance from which was fired the first shot that staggered humanity in 1801. Like Sumter, Fort .Moul-trie never surrentlered. Protected by the encroaching it |)resented no such target as the highbrick walls of the more historic fortress. Vet it had its i> in history. Eighty-five years l)efore, gunsplaced here had helped to repel the fleet, and Sergeant Jasper had nailed to the flagstaff the bannerof the new rei)ublic. Farther down the harbor the Confederates held permanent positians. the efforts tocapture which were costly to the blockading f
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