This paved the way for the creation of the Massachusetts ... 54th. His Medal of Honor came during the battle when the flag bear carrying the American flag was killed. Carney snatched up Old Glory ...

Denzel Washington revealed in a newly-unearthed interview that his infamous “flogging scene” in “Glory” left ... the US military, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

The historic predecessors of today’s unit — the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the nation’s first all-African American ... Later, their story was dramatized in the Academy ...

Glory makes a vague, disparaging reference to what could be the 1st South Carolina in an early scene, and later depicts a similar “contraband” unit joining the Massachusetts 54th on a military ...

served in the MA 54th Volunteer Infantry Regiment and received a Congressional Medal of Honor ... Although Carney felt called to a life in the ministry, the outbreak of the Civil War and the call to ...