The 22d did not fight at the battle of Fort Wagner in the summer of 1863.
Strong's troops advanced, capturing several batteries, moving about three miles to within range of Fort Wagner.
The film culminates when the 54th leads an assault on Fort Wagner.
The following day he launched the first attack on Fort Wagner which was defeated.
Fort Wagner had withstood 60 days of constant bombing and held off a much larger Union army.
Black troops, he wrote, "won't fight as they ought" - and even Fort Wagner failed to persuade him otherwise.
This led to the capture of Fort Wagner in early September.
In the assault on Fort Wagner he commanded the left wing with half the regiment's companies.
His actions at Fort Wagner preceded those of any other black recipient but he was not presented with the honor until nearly 37 years later.
The attack on Fort Wagner is depicted in the film Glory.
The 22d did not fight at the battle of Fort Wagner in the summer of 1863.
Strong's troops advanced, capturing several batteries, moving about three miles to within range of Fort Wagner.
The film culminates when the 54th leads an assault on Fort Wagner.
The following day he launched the first attack on Fort Wagner which was defeated.
Fort Wagner had withstood 60 days of constant bombing and held off a much larger Union army.
Black troops, he wrote, "won't fight as they ought" - and even Fort Wagner failed to persuade him otherwise.
This led to the capture of Fort Wagner in early September.
In the assault on Fort Wagner he commanded the left wing with half the regiment's companies.
His actions at Fort Wagner preceded those of any other black recipient but he was not presented with the honor until nearly 37 years later.
The attack on Fort Wagner is depicted in the film Glory.