“While recruiting, Lieutenant Grace was often insulted by such remarks as, "There goes the captain of the Negro Company! He thinks the negroes will fight! They will turn and run at the first sight of the enemy!" His little son was scoffed at in school because his father was raising a negro company to fight the white men.” Civil WarBlack HistoryRace RelationsPhiladelphiaUs HistoryRace And Racism In AmericaRecruitmentInfantry Book:History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865 Source: History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865