Yesterday, the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of colored troops marched
through Boston, on its return from the war, and was disbanded. Ah, could we do
our work as that regiment has done its work! They have helped to achieve the
safety of the nation and the deliverance of their race.
SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor, James Freeman
Clarke: Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence, p. 291
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