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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Conduct of the colored troops. (search)
anting, however, instances where individual companies and regiments of the colored troops covered themselves with glory. It is the testimony of officers, not specially friendly to the negro, that no finer regiments went into battle in any part of the Union than the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts; and their charge at Fort Wagner will be reckoned among the finest passages at arms in history. Of the former of these regiments, in this terrible and bloody assault, an eye-witness (R. S. Davis, Esq.) says: Who fight more valiantly than the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, as they struggle in the midst of this darkness and death to vindicate their race? They lead the advance, and follow without faltering the brave Shaw, as he ascends the wall of the fort. The parapet is reached, and their lines melt away before the terrible fire of the enemy; but they fight on, though the voice of their colonel is heard no more, and their officers have fallen in the death struggle. Their color ser