helping to grow the ranks of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which was one of the first Black units to fight in the Civil War. The Maryland National Guard, along with an ...

From 1861-1865, a ferocious Civil War was fought. The 54th Massachusetts Infantry, a Black unit, was organized in early 1863 after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Despite deadly gunfire ...

Howard Lambert, the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these stories to life.