Period 5 Question 5

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Primary Source

Print portraying African American soldiers carrying a United States flag which reads "54th Mass" on the stripes section of the flag as they meet a battle line of Confederate troops.

Currier & Ives, The Gallant Charge of the Fifty Fourth Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment. On the Rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Rob[er]t. G. Shaw, 1863 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)