Folk Art Memorial Drawing to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, Presented to the Ladies of the G.A.R.
Massachusetts: 1926. Ink on paper, 18 ½ x 23 ½ inches. Alexander Johnson, an African-American musician from New Bedford, enlisted in the army at age 16 and was believed for some time to be the first African-American musician in the Union Army. He mustered into mustered into Company "C" of.....