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African-American Troops In The Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts
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The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts was organized in early 1863 by Robert
Gould Shaw, twenty-six year old member of a prominent Boston abolitionist family.
Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second
Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth ....
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....mbered 510 officers and men at the opening of the Florida Campaign, and its
new commander was Edward N. Hallowell, a twenty-seven year old merchant from
Medford, Massachusetts. Anxious to avenge the Battery Wagner repulse, the Fifty-
fourth was the best black regiment available to General Seymour, the Union
commander.
Along with the First North Carolina Colored Infantry, the Fifty-fourth
entered the fighting late in the day at Olustee, and helped save the Union army
from complete disaster. The .... |
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