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- GLC#
- GLC02881.23-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1863
- Author/Creator
- Currier & Ives
- Title
- 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 Robt. G. Shaw.
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 print : col. Height: 30.3 cm, Width: 40.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Portrays 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. There are 2 prints of this image, with different colorization, both are listed as GLC02881.23. For another depiction of this event, refer to GLC00317.02.
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