Robert Gould Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863), was the white colonel in command of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which entered the American Civil War in 1863.

Memorials

In 1864, sculptor Edmonia Lewis created a bust of Shaw.

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1864 - Edmonia Lewis

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The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial was built in his memory on Beacon and Park Streets in Boston in 1897.

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The story of Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts was dramatized in the 1989 movie, Glory, with Shaw portrayed by Matthew Broderick.

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1989 - Glory - Matthew Broderick

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: There they march, warm-blooded champions of a better day for man. There on horseback among them, in his very habit as he lived, sits the blue-eyed child of fortune, upon whose happy youth every divinity had smiled. — Oration by William James at the exercises in the Boston Music Hall, May 31, 1897, upon the unveiling of the Shaw Monument.

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William James - May 31 - 1897

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