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Now Or Never: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery

Now Or Never: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery

by Ray Anthony Shepard

Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history—George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their intense training, and the dangers and tragedies on the battlefield. Like the other thousands of black soldiers in the regiment, they not only fought against the Confederacy and the inhumanity of slavery, but also against injustice in their own army. The regiment’s protest against unfair pay resulted in America’s first major civil rights victory—equal pay for African American soldiers. This fresh perspective on the Civil War includes an author’s note, timeline, bibliography, index and source notes.


Ages: 11-up
ISBN: 9781629793405
Price: $17.95
Published by: Boyds Mills Press

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