Fifty-Fourth

On the walk back to the museum we stopped to read the historic signage for the Fifty-Fourth Regiment recruiting office site.

ishmael in port 2009

I passed a lot of interesting places on that walk, one of which was the theater where they taped the David Letterman show, on Fifty-Fourth and Broadway.

Earl Pomerantz: "A Possibly Special Appearance" 2008

In 1862 he entered the army as surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth New

History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes

No men or officers of the Fifty-Fourth among them: they said the officers we should hear of by way of Richmond; the men, I suspect, are not.

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

_ C. came back with the terrible accounts of the Charleston fight and the almost total destruction of the Fifty-Fourth.

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

During a few of the sad days which followed the attack on Fort Wagner, I was in one of the hospitals of Beaufort, occupied with the wounded soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

The reference to Hallowell, who had a commission in the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, the first colored regiment raised by a state government, is interesting as further evidence of the prejudice against negro troops.

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, the first regiment of negro soldiers which the Free States have sent to the war.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

Head, Land's End, and Port Royal Island, the regiment followed with the keenest interest by the writers of these letters was the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts (colored),

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

But by the time the merciless taxi had bumped her through devious ways up to Fifty-Fourth

Winnie Childs The Shop Girl 1901