the details of their equipment, the rifles, their napsacks, bedrools,, the -- the bedrolls, their hatshe are photographs of shaw in face to render his accurately. if you look at the depictions of the african-americans, you can see that he is very much individualized them. some are older, some are younger, some have beards. some thinner. this might suggest to you that try to findperhaps surviving members of the 54th regiment or perhaps even photographs of members of the 54th. but that was not the case. thised who pos for monument were not members of the 54th. he just hired african-american men who he found on the streets of new york to come into his studio and pose. so that gave us the idea to form an exhibition which would try and bring the members of the 54th to life. we sought to find photographs of to actual men of the 54th bring them out of the shadows as it were. our original hope was that we might find hundreds of photographs of the soldiers of the 54th. and indeed there were close to 1500 men who were members of the 54th massachusetts regiment during the two years that it. exist