© 1962 by Coward-McCann, Inc.
All rights reserved. This book, or parts therefor, may not
be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from
the publishers. Published simultaneously in the Dominion of
Canada by Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-18609
Manufactured in the United States of America
_To the memory of
Captain V. B. Chamberlain
Seventh Connecticut Volunteers_
_Also by Peter Burchard_
JED: The Story of a Yankee
Soldier and a Southern Boy.
_Author’s Note_
This story opens on St. Helena Island in July 1863. It is fiction but
the battle and prison experiences of Lieutenant Timothy Bradford are
based on those of Captain V. B. Chamberlain of the Seventh Connecticut
Volunteer Infantry.
The Seventh Connecticut was part of an expeditionary force which was
sent to South Carolina in October 1861 to occupy the islands along the
coast and establish a base for military operations against the city of
Charleston.
Union troops occupied the town of Beaufort on Port Royal Island and
made their headquarters and their main base of supplies on the Island
of Hilton Head.
The first charge on Fort Wagner (called Battery Wagner by the
Confederates) is described in this book. Wagner was probably the
strongest earthwork in the history of modern warfare.
A second charge on Wagner was mounted just one week after the first.
This second attack was repulsed. Wagner was finally reduced by siege
and occupied by Union troops in September 1863.