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Gallery Highlights
Preserving the Nation, Nation Oversees, and Soldiers’ Stories Exhibits Highlighted
In the Preserving the Nation Gallery, you can find the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment National Color Guard Flag Fragment. The Federal color of the African American 54th Infantry, depicted in the award-winning movie Glory, was carried in the July 10, 1863 attack on the Battery Wagner of Morris Island, SC. Learn more about this gallery before your visit here.
The term Buffalo Soldiers was first applied to the 10th Cavalry, an African American regiment organized in 1866 by Col. Henry B. Grierson. In between thePreserving the Nation andNation Overseas galleries, visit the Buffalo Soldier mounted on a Quarter Horse.
