USS FORT WAGNER ?

AFAIK the USN has never had any ship named USS FORT WAGNER, in commemoration of the 54th Massachusetts' gallant rush, which IMHO would've had some effect on clouding the acknowledgment of blacks to America's wars. WI a USN combat vessel such as a gunboat was given this name immediately after the CW, or if during WWII say the USN did decide to acknowledge this battle by naming an escort carrier FORT WAGNER (and perhaps also expanded upon the Tuskegee airmen experiment by having an all-black or racially integrated crew complete with a wing of black Navy combat pilots ready to take the war to the Jap home islands in Avengers, Hellcats, Helldivers, etc) ? How much more would the contribution of blacks to American hist have been remembered by wider society and politics than OTL ? WI there was an Aegis cruiser activated today with this name ?
 

Dunash

Banned
Obviously because it would at least, if not more, be remembered for the equal bravery of Beauregard's "Heart of Dixie" 4th Carolina white troopers who held out undefeated to the end of the war, inflicting 1500 Union dead for the loss of 150 Confederates, and thereby be viewed by the ACLU as a rallying call to the segregants, Japhetites, racial purists, elitists, triumphalists, supremacists and Whites in general etc etc!.
 
There's no particular reason why the US Navy wouldn't have a ship named after Fort Wagner just as it has ships named after other Civil War battles, ie. USS Shiloh. It wouldn't matter that US black troops had been lost in the assault, for the most part any connection between the two would probably be lost on anybody in the 1940s.
 

Dunash

Banned
But after the 1991 film "Glory"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/
about a black regiment, and then the 1992 black riots in which many whites felt betrayed & back stabbed at what they perceived as black ingratitude, envy & hate, there's no way such a ship would get named "Fort Wagner" today. Just loook at the uproar over the statue of the mythical WTC memorial black fireman, who is viewed as a myth as there wasn't a single negroe on the Manhattan fire brigade.
 
Actually, I doubt that. If Congress wanted the Navy to name a naval ship Fort Wagner it would. In the general scheme of name it would probably be some supply ship, fast transport or landing ship.
 
In the end, I think it comes down to the importantce or magnitude of the battle itself. In the grand scheme of things, the attack on Fort Wagner was a small event. Thus, our ships are generally named either for: A) admirals or presidents, or B) for large or just important battles like Antietam, Ticonderoga, Yorktown, etc.

Also, I can think of one other glaring reason why the US government wouldn't name a ship after the attack on Fort Wagner. It's not generally encouraging to be on a ship in time of war which is named after a battle which was lost by US forces. And Fort Wagner was just that, a glaring loss. Heroic yes, but ultimately just another loss.
 
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