A record of valor
Posted on May 24, 2011 by hilaryparkinson
If you have watched the movie Glory, you saw a recreation of the assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, by the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry. But a real-life hero from that battle was Sgt. William Harvey Carney, who was awarded the Medal of Honor on May 23, 1900—37 years after the assault on Fort Wagner.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2011/05/24/glory-this-afternoon/