54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

The 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer (Colored) Infantry was the most famous African American regiment to serve in the Civil War, and the first to be recruited entirely in non-Confederate states.

The 54th owed its existence Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew. Until ...

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