With fixed bayonets, 54th Massachusetts soldiers ascend the ramparts at Fort Wagner. “Don’t fire a musket on the way up, but go in and bayonet them at their guns,” they were instructed. Well-positioned and well-armed Confederates made sure many of them never got the chance. (Attack on Battery Wagner – 1863, 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regulars under Colonel Robert G. Shaw/Tom Lovell/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, Dallas)