Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him ...

Army Sgt. William H. Carney in undated photo. (U.S. Army) That act of bravery was recreated for the final scene of the Civil War drama “Glory,” which made Washington an Academy Award winner.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the Confederacy, resulting in almost four years of war within the country. Almost 200 ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney. That link ...

That act of bravery was recreated for the final scene of the Civil War drama “Glory,” which made Washington an Academy Award winner. The DoD bio about Carney was written in February 2017 to ...