General Quincy Gilmore
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General Quincy Gilmore Union General who attacked
Fort Wagner. Among the troops who assaulted Ft. Wagner was the
54th Massachusetts, a regiment of African-Americans led (as required
by regulation) by white commissioned officers. Gilmore had ordered that his
forces be integrated and that African-Americans were not to be assigned menial
tasks only, such as KP or latrine duty, but instead they were to carry arms
into battle. Back marked E & H.T. Anthony, Brady's National Portrait
Gallery.
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