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Enlistment roll of Company A, 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 1863
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This is the original enlistment roll of Company A, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. This was the first Black regiment raised in the North during the Civil War. The enlistment roll includes name, age, residence, marital status, occupation, and height of most soldiers who signed the enlistment roll. Not all names on the original enlistment roll were mustered into the regiment.