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	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 approach to the fort was constricted to a strip of beach 60 yards wide.
		Consequently, the Union infantry suffered considerable casualties in the rush towards the fort.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Wagner (468 words)

	Fort Wagner
		Fort Wagner (also called Battery Wagner) was a fortification on Morris Island[?], South Carolina that covered the south approach to Charleston harbor.
		The approach to the fort was constricted to a 60 m wide strip of beach.
		The bombardment had failed to seriously damage the fighting power of the fort and the Union infantry was greatly attrited in the rush for the fort.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Fort_Wagner.html (244 words)

	Fort Wagner
		Wagner during the Revolutionary War, built the stone house probably under the direction of the old man, his father, and perhaps with the help of fl slaves.
		The influence of the elder Wagners is seen in the design of the building, which would be quite at home in Hinterwald or Dachsenhausen, Germany, the places of origin of the Wagner family.
		Fort Wagner had beauty and dignity, as it still does today, nestled beneath the hills to the north, and fronting the Mohawk River, some quarter mile off to the south.
	www.threerivershms.com /wagner.htm (1266 words)

	Fort Klock, NY -- Revolutionary War Road Trip
		Fort Klock was built in 1750 by Johannes Klock, a Palatine German.
		The shrine of Lutheranism in the Mohawk Valley.
		Fort Wagner -- During the Revolution, the house was surrounded by logs to form a stockade.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /nyroute5/ftklock (342 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Fort Sumter
		During this period the garrison was host at frequent intervals to officers on leave, citizens of Charleston, and even many ladies, who came to see the scars of the April battle, to admire the drill, or to observe the preparations.
		At the end of June 1863, Fort Sumter was garrisoned with 5 companies (perhaps 500 men) of the First South Carolina Artillery, under the command of Col. Alfred Rhett.
		Though one angle of the fort was gained and held for a time, the attack was repulsed.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/12/hh12j.htm (674 words)

	Morris Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was heavily fortified to defend the harbor, with the fortifications centered on Fort Wagner.
		It was the scene of heavy fighting during the Union Army's campaign to capture Charleston, and is perhaps best known today as the scene of the ill-fated assault by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, an African-American regiment.
		However, a greater danger to the old fort, and the lighthouse, are plans to commercially develop the 125 acres (506,000 m²) of high ground on Morris Island as a luxury residential area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morris_Island (325 words)

	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 fort was held by a small garrison of Confederate Infantry and Artillary and protected by a narrow approach up the beach, constricted by a marshy creek which funneled the soldiers onto a strip of sand a few hundred feet wide.
		S.C. Artillary was positioned on the right flank of the fort, in the sand dunes so as to sweep the front wall of the Fort with Cannister.
	www.awod.com /gallery/probono/cwchas/wagner.html (721 words)

	The Wagner Re-Interment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Webster Wagner, John B. Haslett and Simeon Tingue, the Fort Plain executive committee, and a procession was formed, President Hutchinson marching in front with the members of the executive committee, followed by the Historical society and the Military.
		Colonel Wagner was engaged in the battle of Oriskany and held the position of lieutenant colonel of tile second battalion from the Palatine district, of which Jacob Klock was colonel.
		The village of Fort Plain was called by the Iroquois Twa-da-a-la-ha-la, "The Fort on a Hill." The Mohawk Middle Castle being situate on the easterly bank of the 0-squa-go creek overlooking the village, and was called Ga-na-jo-hi-e, and was the junction of the great Central and Susquehanna Indian trails.
	www.fortklock.com /wagnerreint.htm (5209 words)

	Great-grandfather John Peter Wagner, Jr
		Fort Stanwix was built at the Oneida Carrying Place, now Rome, New York, in 1759, as a defense against the French.
		Once the men thought they heard cannon from the fort, which was a signal that the fort's defenders would come to their rescue, and gave a ragged cheer, but it was only thunder from the hills.
		The several Forts that dot the Mohawk Valley are really stone-reinforced farm houses.
	www.ncssar.com /chapters/WAGNERJR.html (1242 words)

	Johan Peter Wagner
		In early times, and during the wars, it was stockaded and known as Fort Wagner, and a blockhouse was said to have been situated some 50 feet southeasterly of the dwelling, some of the timbers of which are still in the barn buildings on the farms.
		Wagner was alive and undoubtedly with his approval it is deemed as the most reliable of all the histories.
		Wagner was Miss Susan Davis, a lady as amiable and sensible as she is unassuming and domestic.
	www.threerivershms.com /JPwagner.htm (11882 words)

	Weller, Lester M. - Biography
		To have been reared and educated in a town, to have studied for the practice of law in the town, and then to have passed the years of a long life as an attorney in the same town, is a record that is remarkable because of its extreme rarity.
		He ranks among the leaders of the bar in his town and county, for many years handled the most important litigation that has come before the county's courts, and was retained as counsel by some of the largest interests in the town and county.
		Lester M. Weller obtained his elementary education in the public schools of Fort Plain, and after having finished with these entered a law office in Fort Plain and read for the profession of a lawyer, passing the necessary examination and being admitted to the bar in 1879.
	darcisplace.com /darci/wellerl.htm (576 words)

	The Charging Of Fort Wagner
		His secondary argument is the belief that the regiment was not sent to lead the charge on Fort Wagner in order to be sacrificed for the white soldiers that would follow.
		He focuses on the fact that the commanding officers, in planning the attack on Fort Wagner, did not choose "Negro" troops over white troops to lead the attack because of beliefs that "Negro" troops were expendable.
		He recalls that once inside the fort, (the regiment was only in a remote section of the stockade for a short period of time) the men of the 54th displayed great courage by facing off with a larger, better armed, and better protected Confederate Army.
	www.studyworld.com /newsite/ReportEssay/History/American/The_Charging_Of_Fort_Wagner-393574.htm (2457 words)

	Featured Recipient of the Month History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lying on the sandy beach within 1000 yards of the fort were members of the Union infantry including the 600 men of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry.
		The assault on Fort Wagner would be the first real test of these young fl, Union soldiers--everyone of them a volunteer.
		Somehow he gained the entrance to the fort and proudly planted his flag...but he was alone...everyone else either killed or wounded.
	www.cmohs.org /recipients/carney_history.htm (1147 words)

	Untitled Document
		On Thursday evening our camp was thrown into considerable excitement by the report that the demand was to be made for the surrender of the fort, and when it was reported that a white flag had been sent to Sumter our batteries were all manned, and the men in eager expectations were watching the fort.
		Island in the direction of Wagner was lighted up by a brilliant calcium light, and the mortar hulks and land mortar batteries were busy at work, the 15 in.
		Forts Wagner and Gregg, works rendered memorable by their protracted resistance and the sacrifice of life they have cost, have also been wrested from the enemy
	www.civilwar.org /preservation/morrisisland/History/voices.htm (1815 words)

	Black Bostonians and the Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shaw found the raid on Darien barbarous and distasteful, and sent a letter to Brigadier General George C. Strong, requesting that the men be used in the planned attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
		Thus, seizure of Fort Wagner was valuable because it enabled the Union to shell Sumter and close the harbor to confederate blockade runners, thereby paving the way for further Union attack on Charleston.
		Fort Wagner was located at the northern tip of Morris Island, was controlled by 1700 troops and 17 artillery guns, and was surrounded by water, marsh, and moats that were up to 3 feet deep.
	www.nps.gov /boaf/54th3.htm (403 words)

	City of Talent, Oregon * Historic Context Statement * June 1994
		Wagner Creek, fed by the snows of the Siskiyou Mountains to the south, thus provided a logical focus for early settlement in this portion of the valley, offering both irrigation and, as the dominate motive power required for any potential industrial development, the promise of future growth.
		Inside the wall was a large blockhouse where the Wagner family lived, and the men told all the women and children that in case of an attack to all run into this house and leave the ground to the full sweep of the men.
		The Wagner creek arm of the Rogue River Valley is one of the most fertile, most valuable, and most attractive nooks in the valley and will soon have a larger population in proportion to the number of acres of farming land than any other portion of the county.
	homepage.mac.com /fotl/context (9998 words)

	Union - Rhode Island Artillery
		Fort Pulaski, Ga., District Hilton Head, S.C., Dept. of the South, to October, 1864.
		Fort Pulaski, Ga., District Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South, to April, 1864.
		Fort Pulaski, Ga., District of Hilton Head, S.C., Dept. of the South, to September, 1864.
	www.civilwararchive.com /Unreghst/unriarty.htm (4715 words)

	Fort and Firesides, Fort Wagner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Published by Baronet Litho Co., Inc., Johnstown, NY old Colonial farmhouse and fort built in 1750 stands on the upper side of the highway a little less than two miles west of Nelliston.
		The old and the new are easily identified in this instance as the original building is of stone, the addition which is of wood being an elongation of the original structure.
		The pioneer settler was Johan Peter Wagner, who with his wife, Margaretha Laucs (Loucks), both Palatines, came to settle in West Camp, a Palatine settlement on the west bank of the Hudson River, just north of where Saugerties is now situated.
	www.fortklock.com /fortwagner.htm (647 words)

	Old Fort Johnson
		Old Fort Johnson is the original limestone house built by Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs and hero at the Battle of Lake George.
		The Fort was home to William, Catherine Wisenberg, Molly Brant and family throughout the French and Indian War.
		The Fort is depicted having a palisade wall along the front, which was a result of William's concern for security of his family.
	www.oldfortjohnson.org (359 words)

	CAC Manuscripts: MS 649--Transcript
		He then opened fire on the fort with all his heavy guns and the Monitors and Ironsides engaged them from the water while the wooden gunboats lay off about four miles and dealt out their terrible missles to the rebels, drop firing them fair and square into the fort everytime.
		The rebel rag still floats over Sumter but there is not a gun in the fort, but is dismounted and rendered useless the walls are all knocked to pieces and it is no defense to the harbor at all.
		He is mounting heavy guns in Wagner and Gregg and building new batteries within less than four miles of Charleston over a mile nearer than the "Swamp Angel" and when he gets them finished, the City of Charleston has got to surrender or be knocked down.
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/cac/transcripts/ms0649t1l.html (833 words)

	History, The Attack on Fort Wagner
		In a few moments signals are made from the top of the look-out, and soon generals and colonels commanding divisions and brigades were seen galloping to the head-quarters of the commanding general.
		Officers shout, bugles sound, the word of command is given, and soon the soldiers around, upon, and under the sand-hills of Morris Island spring from their hiding-places, fall into line, march to the beach, are organized into new brigades, and in solid column stand ready to move to the deadly assault.
		At the instant the line was seen slowly advancing in the dusk toward the fort, and before a double-quick had been ordered, a tremendous fire from the barbette guns on Fort Sumter, from the batteries on Cummings’ Point, and from all the guns on Fort Wagner, opened upon it.
	www.civilwarliterature.com /3BlacksAsPrincipalChars/TippooSaib/TheAttackOnFortWagner.htm (1352 words)

	This Week in the Civil War September 6,1863
		Captain Lesesne, commanding at Battery Gregg, spiked the guns of that battery, and followed with his command, and the rear guard from Wagner coming up at this time, in pursuance of orders from Colonel Keitt, the safety fuses communicating with the magazines were lighted...and the remainder of the command was safely and expeditiously embarked.
		Next, and very soon after, the Clifton was served in the same way, and also silenced, and in the meantime the third was being badly peppered and crippled, and began falling back, when the balance of the ascending fleet took warning and fright, and all got back to the bar.
		Not a single man received even a scratch, and the fort but very slightly injured, and the contents entirely uninjured....I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, F.
	www.civilweek.com /1863/sep0663.htm (5127 words)

	[No title]
		Edmonson, C.C. "The Bombardment of Fort Sumter, August 1723, 1863." QM Rev 15 (Jul/Aug 1935): pp.
		French, Justus C. The Trip of the Steamer Oceanus to Fort Sumter and Charleston, S.C. Comprising the...Programme of Exercises at the ReRaising of the Flag Over the Ruins of Fort Sumter, April l4th, l865.
		Emilio, Luis F. The Assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863: The Memorable Charge of the Fiftyfourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usamhi/bibliographies/referencebibliographies/civilwar/battles/genmisc/CharlestonHarbor.doc (1140 words)

	America's Civil War: 54th Massachussetts Regiment
		The fort had 11 heavy guns mounted in fixed positions behind the parapets, while smaller wheeled cannon could be quickly repositioned where needed.
		Fort Wagner sat in the middle of Morris Island's northern sandy peninsula.
		The only possible assault approach was east of the fort, along a slim stretch of sand, narrow even at low tide.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ah/blglory (875 words)

	Early History of the Talent (Oregon) School
		It was while the settlers were "forted up" at Fort Wagner that the need for a school was discussed, and action taken to establish one.
		Fort Wagner was located west bank of Wagner Creek and south of Old Pacific Highway, (Talent Ave) on what was later known as Evergreen Gardens or the W.H. Breese place.
		He went to Fort Lane and was given a military escort out of the valley.
	homepage.mac.com /fotl/school_history.html (3246 words)

	WBtS Game Archives - Page 154 - Dispatch Depot Message Board
		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.
		Shaw was killed in the assault on Fort Wagner, SC, and was buried in a common grave with other members of the regiment killed in the battle.
	civilwartalk.com /forums/showthread.php?p=3751 (901 words)

	[No title]
		We publish on page 509 an illustration of the unsuccessful attempt of General Gilmore's army to storm Fort Wagner, on Morris Island, on 18th ult.
		The bombardment of the fort by the iron-clads and our land-batteries on Morris Island commenced at noon that day, and lasted till the evening.
		and their heroic though ill-fated attack on Fort Wagner is retold in the 1989 film "Glory." A monument in Boston Commons honors their service and memory.
	blackhistory.harpweek.com /7Illustrations/CivilWar/TheAttackOnFortWagnerBI.htm (144 words)

	Samuel Darrow 48th New York Infantry
		Unlike other forts, Wagner was not built of bricks and mortar, but of sand and palmetto trees.
		Union leaders sent four monitors (ironclads) near the fort to coordinate a bombardment with shore batteries on Fort Wagner.
		Even with all of the shelling, damage to the fort was minimal because the sand ended up absorbing much of the blasting from the shells.
	www.longwood.k12.ny.us /history/civil/darrow.htm (1028 words)

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