Even after Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter at Charleston, ... Andrew authorized the North's first regiment of black troops, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

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.

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, ...

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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.

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, ...

A look at some who played a role in the bombardment of Fort Sumter - Brig. Gen. Johnson Hagood. A ... Robert Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, later immortalized in the movie "Glory ...

On July 18, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, ... Confederate troops controlled Fort Sumter at the time of the 1863 Union Army attack at Fort Wagner on nearby Morris Island.

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, ...

Last month, a visit of World War II aircraft at Worcester Airport prompted me to go up in a B-17 bomber and get the most minimal sense of what its brave crew and all others who served in the air ...

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.