. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . efense of the city, manning and defendingevery wharf—fighting from street to street and house to house—and iffailing to achieve success, yielding nothing but smoking ruins andmangled bodies as the spoil of the ruthless conqueror. On the morning of the nth. Strong ordered an assault uponFort Wagner. Though led with the greatest gallantry the attack wasrepulsed, and the assailants retired, convinced that they had beforethem a for
. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . efense of the city, manning and defendingevery wharf—fighting from street to street and house to house—and iffailing to achieve success, yielding nothing but smoking ruins andmangled bodies as the spoil of the ruthless conqueror. On the morning of the nth. Strong ordered an assault uponFort Wagner. Though led with the greatest gallantry the attack wasrepulsed, and the assailants retired, convinced that they had beforethem a formidable obstacle not to be lightly swept from their musket and bayonet were now thrown aside for a time, and thetroops were set to digging trenches and mounting cannon. Beforemany days forty-one cannon, rifles and mortars were facing FortWagner at short range. Then Gillmore prepared for another assault. Shortly after noon on the i8th all the cannon in the Uniontrenches opened fire on Fort Wagner. The Confederates sprang totheir guns and answered with a will. From Fort Sumter came theoccasional boom of a heavy gun, and all the land batteries on James. THE CHARGE AT FORT WAGNER. BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. 341 Island sent iron messages of defiance to the men in Gillmores the Union fleet riding at anchor in the offing the ironcladvessels soon separated themselves and steamed in to take part in thebombardment. Led by the Neiu Ironsides, the ponderous floatingcitadels steamed slowly back and forth before the fort, sending theirshells ricochetting along the water to burst beyond the parapet. Theflying pieces of iron sought out every nook and corner of the defenders were driven from one gun after another, seeking unwill-ingly the shelter of the bomb-proofs. The front of the fort thathad blazed fire soon became silent and seemed deserted. When thesun went down no gun spoke defiance from the embrasures of FortWagner, but over its parapet the flag of th
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