Slaves to Soldiers: Storming Fort Wagner

Slaves to Soldiers: Storming Fort Wagner

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Storming Fort Wagner. Color lithograph, July 5, 1890. Published by Kurz & Allison, Chicago.

Storming Fort Wagner. Color lithograph, July 5, 1890. Published by Kurz & Allison, Chicago.

From the opening days of the Civil War, thousands of free blacks and fugitive slaves volunteered for the Union Army, only to be denied service by President Lincoln, who argued that the war was being fought to restore the Union, not to end slavery. However, as the war...

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