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Who helped in recruiting soldiers for the 54th and had two sons that joined the regiment?

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Frederick Douglass Near the end of February 1863, Stearns traveled to Rochester, New York, to meet with Frederick Douglass, a former slave and the editor of the antislavery newspaper The North Star. Douglass agreed to assist with recruitment ads in his newspaper and his two sons enlisted in the Union army.

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