Attack on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, 1863 by Thomas Nast
© Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / Ken Welsh
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- Attack on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, 1863
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- Artist:
- Thomas Nast
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- KW254684
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- Open edition
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / Ken Welsh
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Union attack on July 18, 1863, led by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first major American military unit made up of African Americans; Colonel Robert Gould Shaw led the regiment on foot while they charged and was killed in the assault;
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