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March 22, 2018

Lieutenant Colonel Augustus G. Bennett and Captain Samuel Cuskaden’s Reports on the Surrender and Occupation of Charleston, South Carolina February 1865.

Throughout the Civil War, the city of Charleston, South Carolina had both a strategic and symbolic value to the Union. The first shots of the war occurred at Fort Sumter in the city’s harbor,...

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March 2, 2017

Lt. Col. Edward Hallowell’s Report on the 54th Massachusetts Infantry ‘s Assault on Fort Wagner

The July 18th, 1863 assault of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry upon Fort Wagner on Morris Island near Charleston, South Carolina, cemented that regiments place in history. The 54th led the attack on the fort...

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Lieutenant Colonel Augustus G. Bennett and Captain Samuel Cuskaden’s Reports on the Surrender and Occupation of Charleston, South Carolina February 1865.

Lt. Col. Edward Hallowell’s Report on the 54th Massachusetts Infantry ‘s Assault on Fort Wagner

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