Fort Sumter National Monument invites the public to a free program at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18, to commemorate the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the ...

Fort Cavazos’ top headquarters unit, III Armored Corps, and the 1st Cavalry Division are paying homage this month to members of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, an all-Black infantry ...

In the 1860s, it was viewed as groundbreaking to form an all-black regiment and send them into battle. The mere existence of such a regiment meant threats of bondage and execution for soldiers and ...

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., ...

PITTSFIELD — As Jerome Edgerton Jr. led the NAACP’s Juneteenth Freedom Walk from City Hall to Durant Park on Sunday, the mood was more than just celebratory. "It felt like marching into battle,” said ...

Doreen Wade of Dracut thought of her ancestor Charles Augustus Potter, an infantryman from Pittsfield who assaulted Fort Wagner, S.C., in 1863 with the famed 54th Massachusetts, the first Black ...

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 explained why and how ...

Anyone who has ever watched the 1989 epic Glory is familiar with the heroic feats of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. And if, for some reason, you are reading this but haven’t seen the movie, ...