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Show i February 16, 1973 Army investigators met only silence in trying different tactics to determine if the soldiers played a part in the shooting incident. Because of their united silence. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the entire unit discharged from the Army. This same unit had distinguished itself in Cuba in the Moon The Secretary of the Army the reversed recently soldiers and four seamen would join him in that honor before the end of the war between the states. Sergeant Carney, born in Norfolk, Va.. in 1840, ran away from his master to become a seaman. He was settled in New Bedford, Mass., when the call came to save the Union. Enlisting in Feb. 1863, he was sent to Fort Wagner, S.C., a key point to the capture of Charleston. On Julf 18, 1863, the Union opened fire from the south as the black regiment advanced to a strategic position and waited. On command, the 54th charged Fort Wagner. Dozens of soldiers were dropped by an intensive barrage of shells, one being Sgt. John Wall, the color bearer. Before the flag could touch the ground, Carney caught it and pushed his way to the head of the column. Carney was not only slowed by the enemy fire, but suddenly found .limself alone among dead comrades, pinned down at the entrance to the fort. Carney dodged grenades and shells for 30 minutes until the Union forces renewed their attack, which provided a momentary for Carney. Suddenly realizing that forces approaching him were rebels, he made for a waist-higwater ditch and made it to the rear, but not without incident. He was shot twice as he stumbled with with the flag. Grazed in the head by another shot, he replied to a New Yorker who had come lo his aid, "No one but a member of the 54th should carry the colors.".. , ; . Sergeant Carey made his way back to Union lines and uppon reaching his regimental encampment, informed his cheering comrades that the flag never touched the ground. h In the year 1906 an. entire black men of company-16- 7 Infantry-w- as 25lh Company B, of the Army out drummed ooo Many tasks delegated to members of the 25th all-bla- ck Infantry made them both popular and unpopular in the eyes of many Americans around the turn of the century. ooo The Brownsville of Raid 1906, which (Texas) led to the dishonorable discharge of the entire 1st Battalion, is testimony of the level of racial tension these black men experienced. On the other hand, the 25th had a major role in maintaining law In 1892, elements of the 25th were sent to Idaho to quell a labor disturbance at Coeur D'Alene. anarchy Disorder I 2nd mining district and led, among other things, to the panic-stricke- intense that it blistered railroad car paint and cracked windows. 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