Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Civil War reenactors Calvin Osborne, center, and Anthony Jones, left, both of Washington, D.C., ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The first African American regiment to fight in the Civil War launched an attack on Fort Wagner in the Charleston Harbor on this day in 1863. The 54th Massachusetts Infantry ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! During a tour of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial at the National Gallery of Art, Senior Curator of Photographs Sarah Greenough described the 54th ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
From the beginning of the Civil War, abolitionists in the North had urged President Abraham Lincoln to outlaw slavery and authorize the organization of regiments of black soldiers. Blacks were already ...
Scene depicting Fort Wagner along the Charleston River just after the devastating battle in which Confederate troops have turned back the Union troops of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, made ...
The 1863 Battle of Fort Wagner was a fairly inconsequential battle of the Civil War in terms of overall tactics and strategy. The Union Army needed to capture the rebel-held fort as part of its ...
Today in U.S. 1863 - U.S. Squadron bombards Fort Wagner, N.C. 1866 - Rank of Admiral created. David G. Farragut is appointed the first Admiral in the U.S. 1898 - Landing party from armed yacht ...
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