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TO PROVE YOU ELVES MEN the Black Troops of the 54Th Massachusetts Face a Brutal Test CONFLICT I WANT YOU TO PROVE YOU ELVES MEN The black troops of the 54th Massachusetts face a brutal test. Before them stands Fort Wagner, guardian of Morris Island. On its ramparts, they will strike a blow for racial equality - with their own hands. By GREGORY J. W URWIN (/) : ::>~ I I' he sun sparkled in a the Bay State's governor, John Al­ the Mississippi. Their conduct cloudless sky over Read­ bion Andrew, officiated over the would not only affect Andrew's ville, Massachusetts, at proceed ings. standing, but would weigh heavily 11 :00 A.M., May 18, "My own personal honor," An­ in an oppressed race's struggle for 1863, as the 54th Massa­ drew told the attentive troops, "is dignity and acceptance. chusettsT Volunteer Infantry formed identified with yours. I stand or fall, No governor gave stauncher sup­ a hollow square and waited to re­ as a man and a magistrate, with the port to the Northern war effort than ceive its colors. With the Civil War rise or fall ... of the Fifty-Fourth Andrew. A long-time abolitionist, beginning its third year, such cere­ Massachusetts Regiment." The ro­ he believed the struggle to preserve monies had lost their novelty, but tund politician meant every word. the Union should include the eradi­ nearly 3,000 well-wishers and curi­ For him, the 54th represented the cation of slavery. When, on January osity seekers from nearby Boston consummation of a dream, and a I, 1863, President Abraham Lin­ turned out to see this new regiment considerable risk. All of the regi­ coln's Emancipation Proclamation mount its first public parade. In the ment's 1,000 enlisted men were went into effect, Andrew began crowd stood such celebrated aboli­ African-Americans - participants pressing the Federal government for tionists as William Lloyd Garrison, in a controversial experiment. They permission to enroll blacks in the Frederick Douglass and Wendell belonged to the first black regiment Union army. Unless African­ Phillips. No less a personage · than raised by a Northern state east of Americans fought for their own I L " 42 CIVIL WAR TIMES ILLUSTRATED. November/December 1989 freedom, Andrew declared, they regiment with Northern free blacks, A Uthograph of would remain "a poor, despised, men who had grown up without the 54th's dusk subordinated body of human beings having to call anyone "master." fight for Fort .. who had lost their masters but From the outset, Andrew recog­ Wagner. not found a country." On January nized that proper leadership was 26, the War Department authorized crucial to the 54th's success. For of­ the governor to form a "special ficers, he sought young white gentle­ corps" composed of "persons of men "of military experience, of African descent." firm Anti-Slavery principles, ambi­ Andrew envisioned the 54th Mas­ tious, superior to a vulgar contempt sachusetts "as a model for all future for color, and having faith in the ca­ Colored Regiments." The few black pacity of Colored men for military outfits already in existence consisted service." These qualities were per­ mainly of runaway slaves, illiterate fectly embodied in the man Andrew "contrabands" whose conditioning chose as the regiment's colonel, 25­ as docile servants might inhibit their year-old Robert Gould Shaw. transformation into soldiers. An­ "Rob" Shaw was born in Boston drew decided to fill his new black on October 10, \837. His parents, CIVIL WAR TIMES ILLUSTRATED· November/December 1989 43 ft h n a. n Si \\ c 51 s A white officer and his hair," recalled a fellow officer. "He James, the 54th's 18-year-old adju­ c '~Colored" company. A had charming, easy, frank manners, tant, spoke for the most of his col­ lithograph adorning a and gay, yet thoughtful ways. Every­ leagues when he testified: "I had rec:ruitiug poster for one liked him, and all trusted him been brought up in the belief that black regiments. implicitly." Thanks to his popular­ slavery was a monstrous wrong, its [ ity and attention to duty, Shaw destruction worthy of a man's best wealthy abolitionists, reared their made captain in 15 months. He effort, even unto the laying down of only son for a life of privilege and campaigned in Virginia's Shenan­ life." As seen by his father, James principle. "He was ... one of the doah Valley and survived the Battle was "vastly attached to the Negro­ most attractive men I ever knew," of Antietam, Maryland, September soldier cause" and "sure that enor­ wrote a friend, who added, "he had 17, 1862, where a spent bullet mous results to civilization are com­ such a single and loyal kind of bruised his neck. ing out of it." heart: I don't believe he ever did an An early advocate of black re­ Undeterred by the smallness of unkind ... act without trying to cruitment, Shaw firmly embraced his state's black population, An­ make up for it afterwards." As an Andrew's offer to head the 54th drew drew the bulk of his recruits adolescent, Shaw studied in Europe, Massachusetts. Once committed, from outside Massachusetts. His then attended Harvard College for he defined his mission as proving agents opened a network of recruit­ three years, withdrawing in 1859 to "that a negro can be made a good ing stations stretching as far west as enter the business world in New soldier. " Chicago, Illinois. Frederick York City. Together, Andrew and Shaw as­ Douglass, the noted black leader, Anticipating the breakup of the sembled an impressive group of reg­ proved an invaluable ally in this Union, Shaw joined the 7th New imental officers. "A large number work. Mustering his considerable York State Militia, a fashionable pa­ have seen service before," remarked literary talents, he published a stir­ rade unit that rushed to the defense an abolitionist newspaper, "and ... ring manifesto, "MEN OF of Washington, D.C., at the out­ few regiments have on their roster COLOR, TO ARMS!" which ap­ brea k of hostilities in April 1861. A so many names from the best fami­ peared in newspapers across the few weeks after his arrival in the lies of the . State." Like their North. "The iron gate of our prison capital, he secured a second lieuten­ colonel, the officers were young - stands half open," he urged. "One ant's commission in the 2d Massa­ their average age was 23 - and they gallant rush from the North will chusetts Infantry. "His features exuded a reforming zeal that clashed fling it wide open, while four mil­ were delicate and well-cut, and set with the racial prejudice of main­ lions of our brothers and sisters off by a fine complexion and win­ stream Northern society. First Lieu­ shall march out into liberty." Too ning, merry blue eyes and golden tenant Garth Wilkinson "Wilky" old to serve himself, Douglass en­ 44 CIVIL WAR TIMES ILLUSTRATED. November/December 1989 • c ­ J c I· g n h e a II c n 1 a t. e 5 n ( ( b C a II o Fort Wagner's ~ tl defeaden c. photographed ill II 1861, the WashiDgtoa Light h lDfantry. s [ listed his sons Charles and Lewis, ruly men on barrels or having them May 28, parading through Boston s. the latter becoming Shaw's sergeant trussed up and gagged . Though to the ringing cheers of the popu­ a major. By May 12, 1863, the 54th strict, Shaw was also fair, and the lace, the black soldiers boarded a c. had exceeded its I,OOO-man quota. troops idolized him. "No one could steamer bound for Dixie. s· Andrew appropriated the surplus be kinder to a set of men," claimed Upon reaching departmental to start a second black regiment, headquarters, the 54th Massachu­ one private, "than he was to us ." b the 55th: setts was brigaded with the 2d South \, Considering all the ridicule and he 54th demonstrated the Carolina, a ragtag "contraband" g opposition aroused by Andrew's ex­ effectiveness of Shaw's regiment. More than a month of P periment, the 54th's rapid recruit­ methods at the May 18 nothing but routine garrison duty 1\ ment was no mean feat. In some flag ceremony in Read­ followed . Those weeks of segrega­ ( towns, the governor's representa­ ville, inspiring one ob­ tion and relative inactivity stung tives had to limit knowledge of their serverT to comment: "Here was a Shaw's pride. "It seems to me quite '" I I presence to local blacks to avoid at­ regiment of a thousand men, every important that the colored soldiers SI tacks by Negrophobic whites. Even one of them with an Enfield musket should be associated as much as it in comparatively enlightened Mas­ . and apparently with rather an possible with the white troops," he sachusetts, citizens of New Bedford uncommon amount of muscle and petitioned a superior, "in order that fi taunted one of Shaw's officers: will to devote to the using of it. they may have other witnesses be­ II "There goes the captain of the Ne­ They marched well, they wheeled sides their own officers to what they gro Company! He thinks negroes are capable of doing." Shaw con­ well, they stood well, they handled o will fight! They will turn and run at their guns well, and there was about fided his frustration to Charlotte s: the first sight 0 f the enemy!" their whole array an air of complete­ Forten, a black woman from Phila­ Ie For all his idealism, Shaw took a ness and order and morale such as I delphia who taught in a school for no-nonsense approach to soldiering.
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