54th North Carolina
Field Hospital
Folly Island Federal
July 1863 ~ Folly Island Field Hospital
Heavy ordnance and ordnance stores were continually arriving, chiefly one-hundred-pounder Parrott guns and fifteen-inch mortars. The battery at the head of Folly Island was soon completed and ready for it's guns and by the 1st of July, forty-eight heavy guns were in position: and so quietly did the work progress that the rebels were totally unaware that such a thing existed until it was uncovered on the 10th of July and spoke for itself.
July 7th a Field Hospital was organized near the head of the island and prepared to receive wounded men, Surgeon William Brown of the Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers being placed in charge. Surgeon M.S. Kittinger of the One Hundredth New York Volunteers and Surgeon Clark of the Thirty-Ninth, detailed as operating surgeons.
Six Regiments made the assault on Morris Island after the artillery fire began, and the rebels were pushed back to Fort Wagner, as witnessed by Dr. Kittinger near the lookout at Folly Island just before retiring to treat the incoming wounded. Three-fourths of Morris Island was now in Union hands. First day losses were for the Union: 53 killed and wounded, Confederates were 294, of whom 127 were prisoners.
It was determined to take Fort Wagner the second day and at day break, three regiments began the assault and were halted within two-hundred yards and pinned down. Eventually they were forced from the parapet and the forces retired. Second day losses were for the Union: 8 officers and 332 men killed. Confederate losses were 1 Officer and 5 men killed. Confederate forces in Fort Wagner were about 1200 Officers and men.
Excerpt from:
The History of the Thirty- Ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Veteran Infantry
By Charles M. Clark
Heavy ordnance and ordnance stores were continually arriving, chiefly one-hundred-pounder Parrott guns and fifteen-inch mortars. The battery at the head of Folly Island was soon completed and ready for it's guns and by the 1st of July, forty-eight heavy guns were in position: and so quietly did the work progress that the rebels were totally unaware that such a thing existed until it was uncovered on the 10th of July and spoke for itself.
July 7th a Field Hospital was organized near the head of the island and prepared to receive wounded men, Surgeon William Brown of the Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers being placed in charge. Surgeon M.S. Kittinger of the One Hundredth New York Volunteers and Surgeon Clark of the Thirty-Ninth, detailed as operating surgeons.
Six Regiments made the assault on Morris Island after the artillery fire began, and the rebels were pushed back to Fort Wagner, as witnessed by Dr. Kittinger near the lookout at Folly Island just before retiring to treat the incoming wounded. Three-fourths of Morris Island was now in Union hands. First day losses were for the Union: 53 killed and wounded, Confederates were 294, of whom 127 were prisoners.
It was determined to take Fort Wagner the second day and at day break, three regiments began the assault and were halted within two-hundred yards and pinned down. Eventually they were forced from the parapet and the forces retired. Second day losses were for the Union: 8 officers and 332 men killed. Confederate losses were 1 Officer and 5 men killed. Confederate forces in Fort Wagner were about 1200 Officers and men.
Excerpt from:
The History of the Thirty- Ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Veteran Infantry
By Charles M. Clark
