North by Night


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This story opens on St. Helena Island in July 1863. It is fiction but the battle and prison experiences of Lieutenant Timothy Bradford are based on those of Captain V. B. Chamberlain of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry.

The Seventh Connecticut was part of an expeditionary force which was sent to South Carolina in October 1861 to occupy the islands along the coast and establish a base for military operations against the city of Charleston.

Union troops occupied the town of Beaufort on Port Royal Island and made their headquarters and their main base of supplies on the Island of Hilton Head.

The first charge on Fort Wagner (called Battery Wagner by the Confederates) is described in this book. Wagner was probably the strongest earthwork in the history of modern warfare.

A second charge on Wagner was mounted just one week after the first. This second attack was repulsed. Wagner was finally reduced by siege and occupied by Union troops in September 1863. - Summary by The Author (5 hr 5 min)

Chapters

Chapter One 9:51 Read by Kazhe Kurdo
Chapter Two 16:35 Read by XavierVO27
Chapter Three 14:35 Read by XavierVO27
Chapter Four 6:58 Read by KayteeFoley
Chapter Five 20:08 Read by ThreeHeadedDragon
Chapter Six 9:20 Read by John
Chapter Seven 12:50 Read by John
Chapter Eight 13:35 Read by John
Chapter Nine 16:21 Read by John
Chapter Ten 9:31 Read by John
Chapter Eleven 16:50 Read by John
Chapter Twelve 15:46 Read by John
Chapter Thirteen 17:15 Read by John
Chapter Fourteen 18:03 Read by John
Chapter Fifteen 11:37 Read by fred
Chapter Sixteen 20:27 Read by timli
Chapter Seventeen 12:59 Read by John
Chapter Eighteen 13:00 Read by pipes
Chapter Nineteen 17:10 Read by pipes
Chapter Twenty 15:43 Read by timli
Chapter Twenty-One 8:22 Read by John
Chapter Twenty-Two 8:53 Read by KevinS