Because they were good friends but what one didnt know, the other did
An accurate description of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment was b) a unit of African Americans who volunteered to fight in the Union Army. It was one of the first official African-American units during the war, although African-Americans had fought in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 before fighting in this regiment during the Civil War. There were about 1,100 soldiers fighting in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
