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Many negro slaves found asylum in Federal forts or in working for Federal troops. Many also enlisted in the United States Colored Troops regiments. Free blacks in the north had their own regiments, notably the Massachusetts 54th Infantry.

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The most famous was the Massachusetts 54th. It had two of Fredrick Douglasses sons on it.

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