WI Fort Wagner Taken?

Let's say Fort Wagner was taken in the Second attempt -- what are the effects?

(FD (Full Disclosure) -- I'm thinking of combining this with a Gettysburg that goes better for the Union.)
 

Anaxagoras

Banned
I see no major change. Fort Wagner was taken less than two months after the second failed assault, and the Union was still unable to capture Charleston, or even Fort Sumter.
 
The natural barriers to taking Charleston by sea + the CSA defenses were mind boggling. In fact, it can be said that Charleston was greatly OVER-DEFENDED considering how much southern military hardware went to defending that city versus what those guns and ammo could have done elsewhere. Gettysburg, say?
 
I see no major change. Fort Wagner was taken less than two months after the second failed assault, and the Union was still unable to capture Charleston, or even Fort Sumter.


I must agree with this. Taking Wagner earlier will simply make the Union blockade marginally easier to maintain.

Wagner was just the beginning of any sea-based assault on Charleston, there were plenty of other defenses which would have to be overcome too. For example, Charleston was of two CSA cities, the other being Richmond, which had a fully functional ironclad squadron tasked for it's defense.
 

Art

Monthly Donor
After Strong was killed and the second assault failed, the Union built three batteries to shell Wagner to rubble. The fort was abandoned because they had many casualties and the slave laborers refused to work any longer. The second assault failed for two reasons. 1. The 54th went in and the white regiments didn't until it was too late for success, and at least 1 additional confederate regiment was ferried over to Wagner. Say neither of these events occur, and Wagner may fall.
 
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