Fort Wagner stands on Morris Island, guarding the approach to Charleston. Early this morning fresh federal troops land on the island, sizing up the fort. The only approach to the beach fort is over a narrow strip of sand bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and swamp marshland on the other. Prospects are…
Adoniram Judson Gordon, born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, on April 19, 1836, began life with the name a famous missionary — Adoniram Judson — and as the son of John Calvin Gordon, named after the Reformation theologian. Entering Baptists’ Brown University at the age of twenty, the abolitionist movement soon impressed him, although he…
Today crowds line Boston’s Beacon Street in celebration of the deployment of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew presents the unit’s colors, after which the regiment parades down the street and to the waiting steamer De Molay for transport to Port Royal, South Carolina. Port Royal and environs, under Union control,…