54th massachusetts regiment leader

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ALLEN, SOLOMON (1751-1821). Major, Berkshire Militia, Continental Army. As per a biographical sketch of Solomon Allen, published in Biographies of Monroe County People, “Lest We Forget” (Massachusetts, November 19, 1910), he was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in January of 1751. According to an Ancestry.com online family tree, his parents were Joseph and Elizabeth née Parsons Allen. The Sons of Liberty website names his spouse as Beulah Clapp; their son was named Moses (born 1789); the aforementioned family tree names another son, Phineas (born 1776), and dates his marriage as August 15, 1771.

Wikipedia and Appletons’ Cyclopededia of American Biography document that his brothers, Moses and Thomas, were chaplains in the Army during the Revolutionary War. Solomon, as a soldier in the Continental Army, rose to the rank of major. Earlier, while serving as a lieutenant, he was involved in the investigation of General Benedict Arnold’s treason. He served in the guard that took British Major John André, Benedict Arnold’s intermediary, to West Point where Arnold had his headqu

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Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Tired, hungry and proud, the black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry stood in the light of the setting sun and awaited the call to battle on the evening of July 18, 1863. The air was filled with the rumble of big guns, and the very ground on Morris Island, South Carolina, trembled beneath their feet. The regiment’s baptism of fire had come only two days before, but the memories of that sharp skirmish had already begun to fade in the shadow of the awesome task that now lay before them.

The path that had brought these determined men to the embattled sands of South Carolina had been a long one, born of idealism and fraught with difficulty. That they had succeeded in the face of bigotry and doubt was due in great measure to the colonel who led them. Slight and fair-haired, Robert Gould Shaw appeared even younger than his 25 years. But despite his initial trepidations, the Harvard-educated son of abolitionist parents had assumed the weighty responsibilities of command, and never wavered in his fer

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Massachusetts Loyalists: Revolution and Exile

Choosing Sides in the Revolutionary War: The Loyalists

Before the American Revolution, most British colonists in North America identified as loyal subjects of King George III. Even though tensions were growing between the colonists and the British Parliament, most North American colonists were still respectful of their king.

In 1768, things started to change with the landing of troops in Boston. For years, these men lived in Boston homes and other buildings while serving in the military, becoming part of the community. Things changed in 1774 when Bostonians learned that British troops had seized gunpowder near Charlestown, Massachusetts. In response, 4000 militiamen rushed to Boston ready to fight. A similar instance in Concord, Massachusetts in April 1775, led to hundreds of British troops dead or wounded.

These conflicts, along with the writing of the Declaration of Independence, forced colonists to choose between remaining loyal subjects to the British crown or becoming something new - patriotic Americans. Colonists had to t