Item contributed by Massachusetts Historical Society
Arriving at Folly Island in 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment used Folly Island as a camp and staging ground for the later assaults on James and Morris Islands.1
This photograph is included in Captain Luis Emilio’s collection of photographs related to the regiment, now at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
1. Douglas Egerton, Thunder At the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America (Philadelphia, PA: Basic Books, 2016).
About item:
Photograph, circa 1863-1864, 5.5 cm x 8 cm.
From the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment photographs.
Photo. 72.87.
