C olonel Robert Gould Shaw was the 25-year-old leader of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first official African ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phyllis Mae Dailey, a New York City native born in 1919, made history as the first Black woman ever sworn into the U.S. Navy ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic book. By Matt White Published Apr 24, 2025 5:40 PM EDT As the soldiers of ...

William Harvey Carney was born enslaved on February 29, 1840, in Norfolk, Virginia. The systemic denial of freedom and opportunity defined his early life. Despite the constraints of slavery, Carney ...