Black History Month: the 54th Massachusetts
Posted on February 1, 2018 by jessiekratz
To commemorate Black History Month, we celebrate the story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first African American unit of the U.S. Army. These brave men served honorably during U.S. Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the war, signaling that the war for union was also a war for freedom and the abolition of the institution of slavery.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/02/01/black-history-month-the-54th-massachusetts/
