...o had presented the Fifty-fourth Regiment with a flag; but the fault would seem to have been more that of others than her own. At the celebration which took place on the departure of the regiment for South Carolina , however, Wendell Phillips said: We owe it chiefly to a private citizen, to George L. Stearns, of Medford, that these heroic men are mustered into the service, --a statement which astonished a good ...