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Turning Point: Assault on Battery Wagner by the 54th Massachusetts
Around a small hamlet in southern Pennsylvania, Robert E. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia was stymied and driven back after three days, July 1st through the 3rd, of bloodletting at the Battle of Gettysburg. A turning point in the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Monuments, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 1863, 54th Massachusetts, African-American, Battery Wagner, Chicago Tribune, Douglas Egerton, Douglas R. Egerton, Edwin Stanton, Gettysburg, Horace Greeley, John Andrews, Joseph Holt, July 18, Medal of Honor, North, Port Hudson, Robert E. Lee, Robert Gould Shaw, Siege of Vicksburg, slavery, South Carolina, Southern, Thunder at the Gates, Tullahoma Campaign, Ulysses S. Grant, USCT, Vicksburg Campaign, William Harvey Carney
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