. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . nd Gloucester Point,Virginia, and then received orders to report to GeneralFoster, at Port Royal, South Carolina. After severalunsuccessful attacks by combined naval and militaryforces of the United States on the defences of Charlestonharbor, ending with the desperate assault on Fort Wagner,it became evident that a regular siege was necessary, andthe brigade in the summer of 1863 settled down to thatwork on Morris Island, and Fort Wagner was reduced,and on September 5, 1863, was occupied by the Fifty-second with other No
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . nd Gloucester Point,Virginia, and then received orders to report to GeneralFoster, at Port Royal, South Carolina. After severalunsuccessful attacks by combined naval and militaryforces of the United States on the defences of Charlestonharbor, ending with the desperate assault on Fort Wagner,it became evident that a regular siege was necessary, andthe brigade in the summer of 1863 settled down to thatwork on Morris Island, and Fort Wagner was reduced,and on September 5, 1863, was occupied by the Fifty-second with other Northern regiments. In January, 1S64,Lieutenant-Colonel Hoyt was commissioned colonel ofthe regiment. In June of that year General Foster de-vised a plan for the capture of Charleston. The partassigned to the Fifty-second was the capture of FortJohnson by a night attack. Colonel Hoyt, leading onehundred and thirty-five of his men, scaled the parapet ofthe fort in face of a direct fire ; but the expected supporthaving for some unexplained reason failed to arrive, they25 /. were obliged to surrender to the superior force of thegarrison, losing one-fourth of their number in killed andwounded. Colonel I loyts commanding officer says in hisreport, Had you been supported as your brave conductdeserved, it would have ensured the success of the import-ant operations then being carried on against Charleston. For two months Colonel Hoyt was confined in Charles-ton jail and at Macon, Georgia. He was transferred fromthe latter place to Charleston, with other officers, to beplaced under fire of the Federal guns in retaliation for thebombardment of the city. He was then exchanged, andrejoined his regiment on Morris Island. After the surrender of Charleston, the Fifty-second wasincorporated with Shermans great column, and was pres-ent at Raleigh when Johnston surrendered. The regimentwas mustered out of service in July, 1865, and ColonelHoyt was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant andmeritor
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