The 54th regiment became famous after an attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina in July 1863. The outpost was heavily fortified, but it would need to be taken if the Union forces wanted to secure ...

Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park commemorates the assault on Battery Wagner by the 54th Massachusetts Infantry with free screening of ... The 54th Massachusetts Regiment, ...

Fort Sumter was one of several forts that Lincoln’s predecessor, ... This included over thirty African American men, some of whom fought in the famous Massachusetts 54th Colored Regiment, ...

Despite the danger around him, Sgt. William H. Carney of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment survived, holding the flag aloft for an entire half hour on the fort’s parapet.

The 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry fought a historic battle Civil War battle 150 years ago, historic in part because it was the first all-black regiment from the North to do battle ...

Henry Monroe was a 13-year-old drummer boy when the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment stormed a Confederate fort in a heroic but futile assault that killed hundreds of his comrades ...

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The fort guarded the entrance to the harbor at Charleston, S.C., and was near Fort Sumter, where the war had begun in 1861. More than 120 men of the 54th were killed in the failed assault.

54th Regiment battleground protected in South Carolina. ... 20 houses on the remaining high ground, part of which was the site of a Union battery that once lobbed shells into both Fort Sumter, ...

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 ...

Months after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed 150 years ago, the first unit of black Northern soldiers was organized as the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and went on to fight at Fort Wagner ...