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	Battery Wagner, the Assault of July 18, 1863
		His goal was to capture the Battery and the remainder of the low, sandy, flea infested island (know locally as coffin island due to its use as a Lazzaretto and leper colony prior to the war).
		The Swamp Angel Battery behind the island has been preserved.) The island's appearnce now, however, is similar to that it had during the war, low, sandy and covered with scrub growth.
		S.C. Artillary, Co. A, their small field artillary, positioned in the dunes beside Wagner, protected the battery's flank and threw cannister fire across the front wall of the Battery.
	www.awod.com /gallery/probono/cwchas/wagner.html (721 words)

	Fort Wagner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Wagner (also called Battery Wagner) was a fortification on Morris Island, South Carolina, that covered the southern approach to Charleston harbor.
		The first engagement, the Battle of Fort Wagner or the First Assault on Morris Island, occurred on July 11, 1863.
		Unfortunately for the assault force, the prior bombardment failed to seriously damage the fighting power of the fort.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assault_on_the_Battery_Wagner (468 words)

	Battery assault criminal defense lawyers madison wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Battle of Battery Wagner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Morris Island was protected by a small but strategically located Confederate earthen fort called Battery Wagner that was manned by 1,300 men under the command of Gen. William B. Taliaferro.
		Gillmore believed that the shot-torn beach in front of Battery Wagner could be crossed and the fort taken.
		At the forefront of the Union assault was the 54th Massachusetts, the first fl regiment recruited in the North.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /battles-campaigns/1863/630718.html (356 words)

	WBtS Game Archives - Page 154 - Dispatch Depot Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was killed in the assault on Battery Wagner, S.C. in 1863 and buried in a mass grave with his fl soldiers.
		He died on the ramparts of Battery Wagner which was an assault his unit had made on the 18th of July 1863 and all the world was watching what these fl soldiers were going to do once led into combat.
		Battery Wagner happened to be their second action, but the nature of the assault and the troops he was leading at the time of his death was incredibly news worthy.
	civilwartalk.com /forums/showthread.php?p=3751 (901 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Fort Sumter
		Brick and stone masonry "counterforts," already built at each extremity of the esplanade as protection for the magazines, were now strengthened, and much of the remaining gorge exterior was sandbagged, or otherwise protected.
		A "desperate" assault upon Wagner the following morning failed, though the parapet was briefly gained.
		Batteries Wagner and Gregg would be taken by protracted siege operations.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/12/hh12j.htm (674 words)

	Fort Sumter National Monument - Frequently Asked Questions (U.S. National Park Service)
		An "Endicott" gun battery it is one of a series of concrete fortifications built on US coastlines in the 1890s to 1905, The name comes from Secretary of War William C. Endicott.
		To resemble the battery’s first paint job of the early 1900's when a mixture of tar and linseed oil were used as a waterproofing agent.
		As a result, Battery Wagner, and the other Union and Confederate fortifications on the ocean side of the island no longer survive.
	www.nps.gov /fosu/faqs.htm (1902 words)

	Armchair General Magazine: Interactive Military History
		Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw: O …
		Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw: On this day, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and 20 of his troops are killed in an assault on Fort Wagner, near Charleston, South Carolina.
		Shaw was commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, perhaps the most famous regiment of African-American troops during the war.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /articles.php?cat=47&p=1325&page=1 (219 words)

	This Day in History 1863: Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw
		On this day, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and 272 of his troops are killed in an assault on Fort Wagner, near Charleston, South Carolina.
		Fort Wagner stood on Morris Island, guarding the approach to Charleston harbor.
		Union artillery battered Fort Wagner all day on July 18, but the barrage did little damage to the fort and its garrison.
	www.history.com /tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=2251 (436 words)

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	Troy and Battery Wagner, an excerpt from The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam by James ...
		Battery Wagner itself is now nothing but a memory whose actual site has ceased to exist.
		The wall of the Achaeans and Battery Wagner mark a change in the landscape of war, an obliteration by nature, that mirrors the obliteration of those who died there.
		One hundred years after the battle at Battery Wagner, with the March on Washington in 1963 and Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, "I have a dream," the cause for which Shaw and his men died was as unrealized as ever.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/789934.html (4905 words)

	Robert Gould Shaw Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On July 18, 1863, he led the 54th, in conjunction with two brigades of white troops, in an assault on Confederate Battery Wagner.
		In the unsuccessful charge, the fl troops proved themselves to be fully capable of standing up to enemy fire but lost about one quarter of their men, including Colonel Shaw.
		The rebels in the battery were so outraged by the Union commanders arming fls that they decided to insult the white officer by burying him in a common grave with his fl enlisted men.
	www.civilwarhome.com /shawbio.htm (280 words)

	Fine Edge of the Blade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 54th Regiment was one of the first of the fl regiments and was organised in March, 1863 by Colonel Robert Shaw.
		The unit earned fame during its unsuccessful assault on Battery Wagner in July of the same year.
		Over 250 men from the regiment were injured during that assault.
	www.blackraptor.net /m7fic8/blade (145 words)

	Sgt Hook - This We’ll Defend
		On this particular morning, Shuck and Gabe are helping Battery A, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment Soldiers search the nearby village of Shukran for any weapons that may be hidden in the area.
		This is the latest air assault mission for the 1/508th in a series of sub-operations under “Operation Achilles,” an operation ongoing since early March.
		Battle Company and Chosen Battery join Able Troop, which was activated April 27, as part of the new Warrior Transition Brigade “to facilitate the healing process of warriors in transition and their families physically, mentally and spiritually,” said Col. Terrence McKenrick, the brigade’s commander.
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	Battle Wagner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The only barrier left was Battery Wagner, an imposing massive sand fortress that guarded Charleston Harbor's southern rim.
		On July 18, 1863 General Quincy Gilmore threw an assault against Battery Wagner his goal was to capture the Battery.
		The fort was protected by a narrow approach up the beach, constricted by a marshy creek, which funnelled the soldiers onto a strip of sand a few hundred feet wide., In its second engagement and after a heavy naval and land bombardment the men of the 54th.
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	Church-service assault: Assailants disrupt 11 a.m. Mass at Annunciation of the Lord, breaking altar; felony charges ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Officers arrested Val Eugene Loughman, 20; his wife, Emily Beth Loughman, 21; Adam Joseph Turgeon, 27; and Lisa Marie Wagner, 26, all of Hartselle.
		He said the four lived together at 1004 Mitweed St. Police charged them with first-degree criminal mischief, a Class C felony, and they were in the Morgan County Jail on Sunday night, each held in lieu of $750 bond.
		Walker said Wagner moved to Hartselle from Connecticut and Turgeon from New Hampshire.
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	The Times and Democrat - STATE: South Carolina island that was Civil War battleground now at center of development fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The island, with about 125 acres of high ground, is on the south side of Charleston Harbor near Fort Sumter where the first shots of the war were fired.
		The assault on Battery Wagner in July 1863 resulted in 1,600 casualties in a federal force of about 6,000.
		When the assault failed, Union troops besieged the area and, that September, the Confederates abandoned the battery.
	www.timesanddemocrat.com /articles/2004/02/23/pm/pm3.txt (790 words)

	The Peking Duck: Chinese rioters assault battery factory
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	Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - Selected Chronology of the Civil War
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		Sam Houston, American and Texas patriot, statesman, and opponent of Secession dies in TX; John Hunt Morgan captured in Ohio.
		Union heavy bombardment of Ft. Sumter and Battery Wagner (SC).
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	Fort Wagner, etc. - Dispatch Depot Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Here are a few links i found of Fort Wagner aka "Battery Wagner":
		Fort Wagner (Battery Wagner) was the most famous cause the 54th Mass.
		There's alot about Battery Wagner, just look every where you can online, in book stores and your local library.
	civilwartalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=19436 (476 words)

	UNT Department of History: Civil War Web Resources
		On the page you will find info about a unit history that is being prepared for publication, a short history of the unit, a short biography of the unit's last commander and author of the unit history, links to where to locate information on Maryland Union units, and a list of all of them.
		Battery D (Reilly's Battery), 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery,
		Battery D (Reilly's Battery), 1st Reg't North Carolina Artillery
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	The Movie - Gettysburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He forgave the filmaker's use of artistic license because Glory is a powerful movie that will go a long way in correcting the distortions and romanticizations which have been perpetuated by Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind.
		While it is impossible to argue with such a conclusion, I feel that all self-respecting Civil War addicts should never miss an opportunity to set the record straight regarding the errors in Glory, as well as to place Colonel Shaw's assault in proper perspective as to the overall contest for Battery Wagner.
		The effort of the 54th at Battery Wagner did a lot to legitimize the use of fl troops throughout the North.
	www.gdg.org /Discussions/dtmovie.html (9691 words)

	This Day in History - 1863 Assault of Battery Wagner
		This Day in History - 1863 Assault of Battery Wagner
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		For those that have seen and loved the movie Glory I fealt I needed to put this on the front page.
	www.digitalentropy.net /bb/index.php?PHPSESSID=d92caa8a30be1c17355daa0d54c210fe&topic=239.0 (413 words)

	The Post and Courier \| Charleston.net \| News \| Charleston, SC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Isaac Sawyer was laid to rest in an unmarked grave, the fl soldier who fought with the Union army to liberate slaves in the South will be honored with a marble headstone.
		Sawyer, a veteran of the celebrated 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, was part of the legendary assault on Battery Wagner on Morris Island in 1863 that later became the subject of the movie "Glory."
		When the war ended, Sawyer settled in Charleston, where he married and raised a family.
	www.charleston.net /stories/default_pf.aspx?newsID=50543 (487 words)

	Glory - Movie Review and Sounds
		He died in action during the assault on Confederate Battery Wagner on July 18, 1863.
		At first, members of the Fifty-fourth are used for nothing more than manual labor until Shaw convinces his commander through the use of flmail that they should be transferred to a combat command.
		When they finally are transferred, they are involved in their first real battle at James Island, South Carolina on July 16, 1863 to be followed by the attack on Fort Wagner two days later.
	www.destgulch.com /movies/glory (1147 words)

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