Fort Pulaski

DATE

April 10 – 11, 1862

LOCATION

Chatham County, Georgia

RESULT

Union victory

NAME OF BATTLEFIELD

The Siege of Fort Pulaski ( or the Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski) concluded with the Battle of Fort Pulaski

UNION

CONFEDERATE

COMMANDERS

Samuel F. DuPont (Navy)
David Hunter (Army)
Quincy A. Gillmore (Siege)

Robert E. Lee (Army)
Josiah Tattnall (Navy)
Charles H. Olmstead (Fort)

UNITS INVOLVED

Department of the South
South Atlantic Squadron
15 warships, 36 transports

Tybee Island besiegers
10,000 officers and men
36 guns of all calibers
5 Parrotts, 5 James rifles

Dept. of SC, Ga., Florida
Savannah River Sqdrn
3 warships, 2 transports

Fort Pulaski garrison
385 officers and men
48 guns of all calibers
2 Blakely rifled cannons

CAUSALITIES & LOSSES

1 killed
several wounded

several mortally wounded
363 captured

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