mar 13, 1863 - 54th Massachusetts Infantry

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-heroic and costly attack by black Union troops
-convinced Union officers that African American soldiers could fight bravely
-strengthened Union army
-liberation demoralized white southerners
-robbed Confederacy of much needed labor
-however this did not end racial discrimination
-one of the most important strategies for the Union's victory
-Confederacy and Union could not agree on prisoner exchanges and treatment of African American Union soldiers

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