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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
ent them from injury until they were needed. Most of all, the care taken to preserve the magazine from danger was now to be proved and rewarded. Brigadier-General Davis, at that time colonel of the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania, and in Gillmore's command, says of Wagner in Annals of the War, Philadelphia Times, 1879: This was one of the strongest earthworks ever built, and gave evidence of the highest order of engineering ability. After the signal defeat of this last attempt, July 18th, to carry Battery Wagner by storm, General Gillmore proceeded to lay siege to the fort, and approached by regular sap. In his final report he said: The formidable strength of Fort Wagner induced a modification of the plan of operations, or rather a change in the order previously determined upon. The demolition of Fort Sumter was the object in view as preliminary to the entrance of the ironclads. . . . To save valuable time, it was determined to attempt the demolition of Sumter from gr
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
Morris island, under Lieutenant-Colonel Simkins, of his regiment. On July 18, 1863, he was shot from off his cannon, his skull on the left side of the head being fractured by a portion of a shell from Gillmore's land batteries. From the effect of this wound he was partially paralyzed for some eight or ten years. Though being so disabled that he was compelled to retire from the army, he was complimented by promotion to a captaincy. He especially distinguished himself at Battery Wagner on July 18, the day on which he was so seriously wounded. For two hours the gun that he commanded was the only one firing, and it held the enemy at bay, receiving the concentrated fire of the Federal guns, until Captain Powe, its gallant commander, fell seriously wounded. Then for a time the gun which he had commanded was silenced. He was carried into the dead room, in the bomb proof, with nearly all of his clothing shot off; but his faithful servant worked over him for many hours until he finally