54th Massachusetts Regiment
African-American Troops in the Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts
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 in
February 1863 by Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew.
As one of the first black units organized in the northern states, the
Fifty-fourth …
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…dead and wounded. We captured, for the rest, in South Carolina,
on our return to Georgetown, fifteen locomotives, and one hundred and forty cars
loaded with ammunition, small arms and stores. We destroyed them all. We
captured five hundred contrabands, five hundred prisoners, destroyed a vast deal
of property, and captured about eighty head of horses. We are now encamped at
Georgetown, and I hope we will soon be home with our friends and relatives."
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