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Private John Goosberry

Young boy wearing a jacket with piping braided from shoulders to waist, and piping running from braid to each button on both sides. He wears a belt and a kepi, and holds a fife in both hands.

One of the twenty-one Black recruits from Canada, twenty-five-year-old Goosberry, a sailor of St. Catharines, Ontario, was mustered into Company E on July 16, 1863, just two days before the fateful assault on Fort Wagner. He was mustered out of service on August 20, 1865, at the disbanding of the regiment. Goosberry appears in this photograph wearing his uniform as a company musician.

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Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Code: SAGA
Boston African American National Historic Site, Code: BOAF

Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Latitude: 43.5004997253418, Longitude: -72.3740005493164

Boston African American National Historic Site, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3578987121582, Longitude: -71.0706024169922

11/15/2004

01/01/1865

Photo. 72.5, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment photographs, Massachusetts

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Person: Eric Hanson Plass
Organization: National Parks of Boston
Address: 15 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Email: eric_hanson_plass@nps.gov

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