Second Battle of Charleston Harbor

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The Second Battle of Charleston Harbor, also known as the Siege of Charleston Harbor, the Siege of Fort Wagner, or the Battle of Morris Island, took place during the American Civil War in the late summer of 1863 between a combined U.S. Army/Navy force and the Confederate defenses of Charleston, South Carolina.

Photograph taken of eastern barracks and "hot Shot" cannon oven during the bombardment of Fort Sumter on September 8, 1863.

Brig. Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, USA

Rear Adm. John A. Dahlgren, USN

Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, CSA

Union Navy

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The Union Navy was the United States Navy (USN) during the American Civil War, when it fought the Confederate States Navy (CSN). The term is sometimes used carelessly to include vessels of war used on the rivers of the interior while they were under the control of the United States Army, also called the Union Army.

USS Conestoga, a converted gunboat that served on the Mississippi River.

Part of the crew of USS Monitor, after her encounter with CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack)

Crewmen of USS Lehigh in 1864 or 1865.

"The Splendid Naval Triumph on the Mississippi, April 24th, 1862" (Currier and Ives lithograph)