'At Fort Wagner' illustration   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: Illustration depicting the Battle of Fort Wagner, a Union attack on the Confederate fort in Charleston, West Virginia, from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. Caption reads: "Desperate charge of the 54th Mass., Vols., in assault on Fort Wagner, July 18th, 1863." ALTERNATE TEXT: A group of soldiers rush towards the horizon in an empty field. Some of the men climb up a small cliff at the bottom right of the scene. The men carry weapons while they run. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_18
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865; Battlefields
Places: Charleston (West Virginia)