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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 14 (search)
of the first regiment, --and as were, indeed, most of the men prominent from beginning to end in the enlistment of colored troops,--gave an unquestioned priority in the matter to that state. It must be remembered that this was long before Governor Andrew had received permission to recruit a colored regiment, the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, whose first colonel was Robert Gould Shaw, a young hero of Boston birth. The fact that this was the first black regiment enlisted at the North has left a general impression in Massachusetts that it was the first colored regiment; but this is an error of five months, General Saxton's authority having been dated August 25, 1862, and that of Governor Andrew January 26, 1863. The whole number of black soldiers enlisted during the war was 178,975 (Heitman's Historical Register, page 890), whose whole organization may fairly be attributed, in a general way, to the success of General Saxton's undertaking. In making this claim, it must be borne in m