Item contributed by Massachusetts Historical Society
While the 54th Massachusetts Regiment camped at Gregory’s Plantation in Georgia shortly after the conflict at Boyds’ Neck, they heard of the success at Fort McAllister, which ended General Sherman’s ‘March to the Sea.’ Captain Luis Emilio describes in his history of the Regiment: “As the news spread through the camps the men turned out, giving repeated cheers, while the only band present played the ‘Star Spangled Banner.'”1
This photograph of Fort McAllister is included in Captain Emilio’s collection of photographs related to the regiment, now at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The soldiers may have seen the earthworks during their march through Georgia.
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), 262.
About item:
Photograph, circa 1863-1864, 5.5 cm x 7.9 cm.
From the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment photographs.
Photo. 72.106.
