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The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was the second African-American regiment, following the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment , organized in the Northern states during the Civil War. [ 1 ]
The 54th suffered 43 casualties, with 14 killed, 17 wounded, and 12 others lost to capture, but the 10th Connecticut was saved. [4] The following day the Union forces were pulled off the island. [5] This battle was the first engagement of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. [6]
Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863) was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Born into an abolitionist family from the Boston upper class, he accepted command of the first all-black regiment (the 54th Massachusetts) in the Northeast.
It depicts Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading members of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as it marched down Beacon Street on May 28, 1863 to depart the city to fight in the South. The sculpture was unveiled on May 31, 1897. [ 1 ]
During the Civil War, Douglass recruited Black men to fight for the Union, including two of his sons who served in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
The 54th Massachusetts won fame in their assault on Battery Wagner on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor, during which Col. Shaw was killed. [18] The story of the 54th Massachusetts was the basis for the 1989 film Glory .
Glory is a 1989 American epic historical war drama film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African American regiments in the American Civil War.
From two regiments of Massachusetts cavalry there were three Dedham men who died. Three died as prisoners of war. [35] At Fort Wagner, one Dedham man died fighting alongside soldiers from the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and elsewhere. [35] Dedham men were buried in Virginia, the Carolinas, Louisiana, and Georgia. [38]