Editing Fort Wagner (section)

{{Short description|Former fortification in South Carolina}}
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[[File:The Storming of Ft Wagner-lithograph by Kurz and Allison 1890.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Storming Fort Wagner'', an 1890 print showing U.S. soldiers attacking the Confederates at the fort]]
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[[File:Fort Sumter National Monument marker of the Map of Charleston Harbor defenses.jpg|thumb|300px|Fort Sumter National Monument marker of the Map of Charleston Harbor defenses]]

'''Fort Wagner''' or '''Battery Wagner''' was a [[beachhead]] [[fortification]] on [[Morris Island]], [[South Carolina]], that covered the southern approach to [[Charleston Harbor]]. Named for deceased [[Lieutenant Colonel|Lt. Col.]] [[Thomas M. Wagner]], it was the site of two [[American Civil War]] battles in the campaign known as '''Operations Against the Defenses of Charleston''' in 1863, in which United States forces took heavy casualties while trying to seize the fort. The Union Army's second assault on Fort Wagner, the [[Second Battle of Fort Wagner]], included African American soldiers from the [[54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment]] and [[3rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment]]. [[Josiah T. Walls]], who went on to become a United States Congressman from Florida, was one of the soldiers.<ref>African Americans in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877 by Joe M. Richardson page 177</ref>