Item contributed by Massachusetts Historical Society
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment camped in Beaufort for four days in the beginning of June 1863. Captain Luis Emilio described the town in his record of the Regiment A Brave Black Regiment: “There were some fine old houses and gardens skirting the shell road running along the low bluffs, with churches, public buildings, and a spacious green.”1
This photograph of an Episcopal Church is included in Captain Emilio’s collection of photographs related to the regiment, now at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The regiment may have seen this church during their time in Beaufort.
1. Luis F. Emilio, A Brave Black Regiment: History of The Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865 (Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1864), 38.
About item:
Photograph, circa 1863-1864, 7.6 cm x 7.7 cm.
From the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment photographs.
Photo. 72.96.
