Among the First
Christine Gebhard’s “Historic Stops on Boston’s Black Heritage Trail” (Jan. 13) was informative and well written. But Gebhard identifies the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as “the first black regiment to fight in the Civil War.” Actually, this unit was the first black regiment from the northeastern United States to fight, out of some 149 black Union Army regiments overall.
DAVID K. CARLISLE
Los Angeles
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