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The 54th Massachusetts: The Heroic Black Union Regiment
The enlistment was so successful that two regiments, the 54th and the 55th, were created. The Massachusetts governor chose Robert Gould Shaw, a 25-year-old officer who had been wounded at the ...
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What Was the Massachusetts 54th Regiment?
This paved the way for the creation of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment on March 13, 1863. Voices hollered for and against ...