. The naval history of the Civil War . eral Gillmore commenced the attackwith his batteries, and as soon as the Moni-tors could get sufficiently near to fire witheffect, they opened with shell upon theConfederate works, which were replying to beach, the iron-clads steamed parallel to thelow, flat ground that extended northwardfrom the sand-hills toward Fort Wagner,and as near to it as the depth of the waterwould allow, sending shells in every direc-tion over its surface to clear away anybodies of troops that might be gatheredthere. Gillmores troops pushed on, and, asthey reached Fort Wagner, t
. The naval history of the Civil War . eral Gillmore commenced the attackwith his batteries, and as soon as the Moni-tors could get sufficiently near to fire witheffect, they opened with shell upon theConfederate works, which were replying to beach, the iron-clads steamed parallel to thelow, flat ground that extended northwardfrom the sand-hills toward Fort Wagner,and as near to it as the depth of the waterwould allow, sending shells in every direc-tion over its surface to clear away anybodies of troops that might be gatheredthere. Gillmores troops pushed on, and, asthey reached Fort Wagner, two or threebuildings standing apart from each otherwere seen to be in flames, supposed to be thework of the enemy to unmask the guns ofFort Wagner bearing down the beach. The iron-clads at this time were laidabreast of Fort Wagner. This was an opensand-work about two and three-quartermiles from the southern end of Morris Isl-and, and lying about one and three-quartermiles north of the sand-hills, and command-ing the intervening FORT WAGNER DURING THE BOMBARDMENT. General Gillmores guns, and dispersed theenemy wherever they were seen to assem-ble. At 8 oclock, being nearly abreast thenorthern end of the ridge of sand-hills. Gill-mores batteries ceased firing, and his troopswere seen from the Monitors making theirway upon Morris Island. The assaulting col-umn, led by Brigadier-General Strong, hadpassed the waterway between Folly andMorris Islands in small boats, under coverof his batteries. He then held all the island,except a mile on the north end, includingFort Wagner and the battery on CummingsPoint, which, as near as could be judged,contained fourteen or fifteen heavy Dahlgren speaks of an as-saulting party of troops that were landedon Morris Island by Lieutenant McKenzie,but General Gillmore leads one to infer thatthese were landed in small army-boats. As the troops moved rapidly along the It was 9 oclock before the first shot wasfired from the Moni
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