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The Flag Never Touched The Ground: America's Brave Black Regiment in Battle

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In 1863, the US Civil War was raging. Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had freed over 3.5 million African-American slaves, and now the Union Army began to recruit a second all-black regiment of soldiers to join the fight. As the struggle against the Confederate South raged on, the newly-formed 54th Massachusetts battalion prepared to attack the seemingly impregnable fortress of Fort Wagner. The odds were heavily against them; the fort had never been taken. America was watching them - and when the bugle sounded ...

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The Flag Never Touched The Ground: America's Brave Black Regiment in Battle 2021, Pushkin Children's Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781782693055

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