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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
Medal of Honor recipient depicted in movie ‘Glory’ erased from Pentagon website
Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him ...
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Pentagon scrubs Black Civil War hero because DEI
Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney earned the Medal of Honor by carrying the American flag through fire at Fort Wagner, ...
Defense Department wipes ‘Glory’ Civil War hero from website
The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ...
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Kids in the Civil War
As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than ... They, too, experienced the horrors of war, at places such as Fort Wagner, South Carolina, and Saltville and Petersburg, both in Virginia.
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Robert Gould Shaw
Shaw was killed soon after at Fort Wagner and buried with his comrades by Confederate soldiers in a mass grave in South Carolina; one regimental soldier won the Medal of Honor. His abolitionist ...