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Entertainment News Headlines - Yahoo! News: 'Glory': Civil War fight by black troops recalled

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'Glory': Civil War fight by black troops recalled
Jul 18th 2013, 19:22

Re-enactors sit in an encampment at Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island, S.C., on Thursday, July 18, 2013. The re-enactors gathered to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the famed Civil War attack by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in a fight commemorated in the film "Glory." Prayers, a wreath-laying, candlelight and period music are planned to observe the attack on Battery Wagner that debunked the myth that black soldiers could not fight. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Dozens of Civil War re-enactors gathered Thursday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of a famed attack by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry — a battle in South Carolina that showed the world black soldiers could fight and was chronicled in the movie "Glory."


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