The meaning of the number has no particular significance. Permission to form a militia regiment was granted by the US War Department to the Governor of a state. I suppose the "54" was the next available number.
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The 54th Massachusetts Regiment was an all-black infantry regiment organized in Massachusetts and lead by Col. Shaw and other white officers. It was one of the first black regiments organized by free black men of the North.
The Regiment led the infantry assault, and were all but wiped out. Fort Wagner was never taken
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment consisted of African American volunteers, many of them former slaves, initially commanded by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, 26-year-old son of a prominent Boston abolitionist family.
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there were approximatley 500 billion people in the 54th massachusttes
They were the first black army
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry
First All African American regiment
Massachusetts; The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was significant because it was an African-American regiment. The regiment saw substantial service during the American Civil War.
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was an all-black unit, commanded by white Colonel Robert Shaw
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment was an all-black infantry regiment organized in Massachusetts and lead by Col. Shaw and other white officers. It was one of the first black regiments organized by free black men of the North.
The Civil War was not fought in Massachusetts. According to wikipedia they trained at Camp Meigs in Readville which is now a part of Boston.
The 54th Massachusetts infantry (coloured) regiment.
Someone else would have commanded the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment