Members of two Civil War reenactment groups walked the hot sands of Morris Island recently to observe the 160th anniversary of the Union Army’s failed attack on Battery Wagner.

Civil War reenactors will return to Morris Island on July 18 to remember the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment’s three-month assault on Fort Wagner.

The first African American regiment to fight in the Civil War launched an attack on Fort Wagner in the Charleston Harbor on this day in 1863.

The ultimate goal of the attack on Morris Island was Battery Wagner (called Fort Wagner by the Union Army), a fortification near the tip of Morris Island which commanded part of the island and ...