NORTH BY NIGHT
 | NORTH BY NIGHT |
| BY PETER BURCHARD | |
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| COWARD-McCANN, INC. NEW YORK | |
Second Impression
© 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. Itis fiction but the battle and prison experiences of LieutenantTimothy Bradford are based on those of CaptainV. B. Chamberlain of the Seventh Connecticut VolunteerInfantry.
The Seventh Connecticut was part of an expeditionaryforce which was sent to South Carolina in October 1861to occupy the islands along the coast and establish a basefor military operations against the city of Charleston.
Union troops occupied the town of Beaufort on PortRoyal Island and made their headquarters and their mainbase of supplies on the Island of Hilton Head.
The first charge on Fort Wagner (called Battery Wagnerby the Confederates) is described in this book. Wagnerwas probably the strongest earthwork in the history ofmodern warfare.
A second charge on Wagner was mounted just one weekafter the first. This second attack was repulsed. Wagnerwas finally reduced by siege and occupied by Union troopsin September 1863.
NORTH BY NIGHT
CHAPTER ONE
A big Negro was cleaning fish at the end of a spindlypier. He looked up as the two Yankee soldiers cametoward him. He watched steadily as they approached buthe showed no fear. The hot air shimmered as it rose fromthe sandy soil and the marsh grass whispered in a lig