54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment © Essex Garner (Visual Artist) The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was one of the first official black units in the U.S. armed forces. Led by the white officer Colone

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• Union Army
• 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
• Robert Gould Shaw
• Second Battle of Fort Wagner
• William Harvey Carney
• One Gallant Rush
• Frederick Douglass
• James Henry Gooding
• Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War
• African Americans in the Civil War
• American Civil War
• Military history of the United States