The segregated 54th Massachusetts Volunteers, the first regiment composed entirely of freedmen, leaves Boston, Massachusetts for the Independent Republic of South Carolina.
[restored 4/8/2022]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 175.
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