Browse collection items contributed by Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket: “Departure of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers” Letter from Col. Robert G. Shaw to Major Robert Morris Copeland 54th Massachusetts Regiment Infantry National Colors by Kofi Kayiga Sergeant Major Lewis H. Douglass Early photograph of the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial Massachusetts Executive Order to Include Black Citizens for Military Duty Proposed layout for added inscription Robert Gould Shaw Memorial The Charge on Fort Wagner 1 2 1 2 Next Page