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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Wee Nee volunteers of Williamsburg District, South Carolina, in the First (Hagood's) regiment. (search)
with great slaughter, though this attempt came near being successful. Some of the assailants actually got into the work, but were either driven out, killed or captured. Finding that Wagner could not be carried by assault, General Gilmore, on the 19th, commenced a system of regular approaches. His first parallel was thirteen hundred and thirty yards from our works. On the night of the 23d of July the second parallel was completed, six hundred yards in advance of the first. About the 9th of August a third parallel was constructed, at a distance of five hundred yards from the fort. On the 21st of the same month the fourth was completed, about three hundred yards from the fort, and approaches were commenced for the fifth. Behind the third and fourth, heavy Parrott batteries were erected, which pounded away on Fort Sumter incessantly night and day, firing over Fort Wagner. Since the 18th of July the latter work had been greatly strengthened by the Confederates. The ditch was not