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 ...

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The fate of the Civil War hinged on the battle at South Carolina's Morris Island. If Union forces captured Fort Wagner they could control access to the harbor. Bettmann / Corbis UPDATE, March 25, 2011 ...

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 ...

The siege of Charleston during the Civil War began in April 1863 when the Union Navy sent one of the largest fleets ever assembled to attack Fort Sumter. It failed. The Union ironclads proved to be no ...

The story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment will return to the big screen for two days only when Glory hits more than 600 theaters across the country on July 21 and 24. The film’s return ...