The battle at Fort Wagner marks Glory’s climactic end, and while Union forces were initially repelled, Confederate troops eventually abandoned the fort.

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 ...

The Assault of Fort Wagner is historically significant and better known for the fact that this attack by Union forces on this fort was led by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry which was ...

In February 1864, a 5,500-strong Union force under Gen. Truman Seymour (who commanded the assault on Fort Wagner) landed in Jacksonville with the mission of cutting off Florida as a rebel food ...

Four soldiers from York County served in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, highlighted in the 20th-century film "Glory." George Ellender was wounded in the assault on Fort Wagner, S.C., that took ...

“Glory,” starring Washington, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher, Matthew Broderick, and Cary Elwes, tells the harrowing story of the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, a July 1863 Union assault at ...

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

After one recent failed attempt to take Fort Wagner on Morris Island on South Carolina’s coast, an all-black regiment formed as the 54th Massachusetts Infantry launched an all-out attack on July ...

As the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment stormed toward Fort Wagner, South Carolina, the soldier carrying the American flag fell. It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of ...

<< Here is a letter someone sent me from their ancestor in the 39th Illinois who was a part of the assault on Fort Wagner on Sept 7, 1863. Interesting! I will transcribe it as it was written ...

Glory was the first film to illustrate the involvement of African American soldiers in the Civil War. The film follows the story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first African American ...