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16 FEBRUARY 1862 - CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON #CivilWar

The joint Army-Navy operation in the Henry and Donelson Campaign of 6-16 February 1862 achieved a strategic penetration of Confederate defenses.

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Fort Henry on the Tennessee and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland Rivers protected the enemy's rail line of communication in northern Tennessee. Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote's gunboat flotilla transported Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant's U.S. Army troops up the Tennessee River.
The soldiers landed and marched overland to occupy Fort Henry after it surrendered following a heavy naval bombardment. Before he capitulated, the enemy commander sent most of the garrison to Fort Donelson, ten miles away, while the rest of their army retreated toward Nashville. Image
Grant advanced and surrounded Donelson on 12 February. Stronger than Henry, Donelson's defensive fires damaged several Navy vessels that attempted to support the land attack. Image
As Grant prepared to conduct a siege, the defenders sortied out to disrupt the operation. When that failed, Brigadier General Simon B. Buckner surrendered Fort Donelson and its garrison on 16 February. Image

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Feb 16
16 FEB 1945 - SECOND BATTLE OF CORREGIDOR - #WWII

After powerful air and naval preparatory bombardments, XI Corps launched a coordinated airborne and amphibious invasion of the strategic rock fortress of Corregidor.

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One battalion of the 503d Parachute Regimental Combat Team jumped in on the western portion of the island, followed by an amphibious assault by 3d Battalion of the 34th Regimental Combat Team (RCT), 24th Infantry Division, on San Jose beach southwest of Malinta Hill.
Another battalion of paratroopers dropped later that afternoon. The 503d PRCT and 3d Battalion, 34th RCT quickly joined forces to eliminate the main system of cave and tunnel defenses running through the Malinta Hill district. Image
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Feb 16
SOLDIER PROFILE – SERGEANT WILLIAM CARNEY, MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT

One of 18 Black Civil War soldiers to earn the Medal of Honor, SGT Carney was an ex-slave who fought for the cause of liberty as part of the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
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Born a slave in Virginia, Carney liberated himself and settled in Massachusetts, where he joined the 54th in 1863. He earned the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Second Battle of Ft. Wagner, where the 54th heroically assaulted enemy fortifications against huge odds. @USArmy
As the 54th charged across open ground towards Ft. Wagner, several of the 54th’s color bearers fell in quick succession under withering fire. Despite having been wounded, Carney saw the flag begin to fall and threw away his rifle, seizing the colors and holding them aloft.
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Feb 14
UNIT PROFILE – 1ST RHODE ISLAND REGIMENT (VARNUM’S REGIMENT/THE BLACK REGIMENT)

On 14 FEB 1778, Rhode Island’s General Assembly officially opened the ranks of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Army to Black, Native-American, and mixed residents of the colony. Image
When the Army reorganized in 1778, Rhode Island transferred enlisted men of the 1st to the 2d Rhode Island and sent veteran officers and NCOs home to reconstitute the 1st RI by recruiting free Black, Native-American, and mixed Rhode Islanders.
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Slaves who wished to fight in return for emancipation were also allowed to enlist; the regiment's 255 men included about 140 Black soldiers (88 of whom were slaves). Although it never achieved full strength, the 1st RI fought in 1778’s Battle of Rhode Island.
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Feb 7
UNIT PROFILE – 54TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT

The Emancipation Proclamation’s promulgation in 1863 opened the Union Army’s ranks to Black soldiers for the first time, allowing Black Americans to fight for the Union’s preservation and the end of slavery.
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was among the first all-Black units to be stood up. Led by COL Robert Gould Shaw (scion of a prominent abolitionist family) and promoted by prominent figures like Frederick Douglass, the 54th was flooded with recruits.
Despite Confederate promises to punish captured Black soldiers and their white officers with summary execution for promoting “servile insurrection,” the 54th marched to war in high spirits, leaving Boston on 28 MAY.
#CivilWar #CivilWarHistory #ArmyHeritage #MilitaryHistory
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MUSEUM MONDAY - CHAPLAIN CORPS MUSEUM

As we commemorate the sinking of the USAT Dorchester this week and the Four Chaplains who helped save 250 lives let's take a look at the Army's Chaplain Museum at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
THE ONLY MUSEUM IN THE WORLD DEDICATED TO PRESERVING AND SHARING THE HISTORY OF THE U.S. ARMY CHAPLAIN CORPS.

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Always present with Soldiers in war and in peace, the Chaplain Corps provides religious support to America’s Army. That story is told at the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Museum.
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