... thousand troops for whom it was a pioneer would never have put into the field. But it did not falter. It made Fort Wagner such a name for the colored race as Bunker Hill has for ninety years to the white Yankees".30 They had fought in a battle that indisputably showed the blacks courage and ability. Because of the proven ability of African American ... Civil War (https://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/african.html, April 14, 1999). 3. Fincher. 4. Ibid. 5. Page Smith, Trail by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (USA: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1982): 308. 6. Thomas B. Alle...

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