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To Colored Men. 54th Regiment! Massachusetts Volunteers, Of African Descent

To Colored Men. 54th Regiment! Massachusetts Volunteers, Of African Descent Broadside
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Broadside

109.9 cm x 75.2 cm

Boston: J. E. Farwell & Co., [1863]


[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, commissioned after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, was the first regiment of black soldiers raised in the North during the Civil War. Although this recruitment poster promised enlistees $13 a month, the regiment had to wait more than a year to receive full pay from the federal government.