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At nine o’clock on the morning on May 28, 1863, the 54th’s 1,007 black soldiers and 37 white officers gathered in the Boston Common and prepared to head to the battlefields of the South. That evening, the 54th Infantry boarded a transport ship bound for Charleston.
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At nine o’clock on the morning on May 28, 1863, the 54th’s 1,007 black soldiers and 37 white officers gathered in the Boston Common and prepared to head to the battlefields of the South. That evening, the 54th Infantry boarded a transport ship bound for Charleston.
#Shaw Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens#Boston Common#Massachusetts#Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment#Soldiers and Sailors Monument by Martin Milmore#Brewer Fountain#Boston#Parkman Bandstand#Mine Sweepers Memorial mit Mark VI mine#54th Infantry#transport#28 May 1863#US history#anniversary#summer 2018#USA#cityscape#tourist attraction#US Civil War#American Civil War:#landmark#original photography#travel#vacation#architecture
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