Fort Wagner Garrison
Garrison · Confederate States of America · until September 7, 1863
Confederate garrison of Battery Wagner on Morris Island, under Brig. Gen. William B. Taliaferro: the 1st South Carolina Artillery, the Charleston Battalion, and the 31st and 51st North Carolina. It repulsed the Union assaults of July 11 and 18, 1863; the fort was evacuated September 7, 1863.
Fought in American Civil War
People who served 1
Strength and losses
- July 18, 1863 Strength: c. 1,800 Second Battle of Fort Wagner
Movements
- July 10–11, 1863 First Battle of Fort Wagner
- July 18, 1863 Second Battle of Fort Wagner