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Part of American Civil War

Second Battle of Fort Wagner

July 18, 1863 · Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina

Result Confederate victory

Confederate victory at Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863, fought one week after the First Battle of Fort Wagner. The valor of the Black Union soldiers was widely hailed, encouraging more African Americans to enlist - a manpower resource the Union could use and the Confederacy would not.

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Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
Quincy Adams Gillmore Brigadier General, Commander of the Department of the South Robert Gould Shaw Colonel, Led the 54th Massachusetts in the assault; killed in action Truman Seymour military commander John Adolphus Dahlgren military commander George Crockett Strong military commander
P. G. T. Beauregard William Booth Taliaferro Brigadier General, Commander of the Confederate garrison Johnson Hagood military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
5,0005,000, 5,264
Casualties
1,5151,515
Killed
246246
Wounded
880880, 880
Missing
389389
Strength
1,8001,785
Casualties
174
Killed
3636
Wounded
133140
Missing
55

Units

X Corps (Union army) Strength c. 5,000 · Gillmore's corps; the assault column was Seymour's division Quincy Adams Gillmore Major general · 1863–1864 24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment Led the assault; Col. Robert Gould Shaw was killed on the parapet Robert Gould Shaw Colonel · 1863 62nd Ohio Infantry Regiment 67th Ohio Infantry Regiment South Atlantic Blockading Squadron John Adolphus Dahlgren Rear admiral · 1863–1865
Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida P. G. T. Beauregard General Fort Wagner Garrison Strength c. 1,800 · Taliaferro's garrison, reinforced by Hagood's 32nd Georgia William Booth Taliaferro Brigadier general · ?–1863

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First Battle of Fort Wagner
 
Second Battle of Fort Wagner
 
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