Fort Wagner

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Confederate stronghold on Morris Island, Charleston Harbor

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Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · Massachusetts 54th Regiment · 2:40 · 19 Jul
…The Battle of Fort Wagner left 30 men of the 54th dead on the field, including Colonel Shaw, and 24 more so badly injured that they would later die from their wounds.…
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Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · Massachusetts 54th Regiment · 2:29 · 19 Jul
…United States soldiers did not take the fort that night, but no one could miss that black men had proved themselves equal to their white comrades.…
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Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · Massachusetts 54th Regiment · 2:04 · 19 Jul
…The assault on the fort killed, wounded, or lost more than 250 of the 600 men and made the formerly enslaved Sergeant William Harvey Kearney the first African American to be awarded a Medal of Honor.…
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Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · Massachusetts 54th Regiment · 1:46 · 19 Jul
…In the dark at Fort Wagner, the Massachusetts 54th proved……
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · Massachusetts 54th Regiment · 0:30 · 19 Jul
…Because Fort Wagner covered the southern entrance to the harbor,……
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · Massachusetts 54th Regiment · 0:11 · 19 Jul
…On July 18th, 1863, at dusk, the black soldiers of……
John HopkinsShort History Of... · The American Civil War (Part Two of Two) · 0:23 · 12 Apr
…Up ahead, Fort Wagner broods on the narrow spit stretching……
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