When Col. Robert Gould Shaw led his newly formed 54th Massachusetts Regiment down Boston's Beacon Street and off to war, American poet John Greenleaf Whittier described Shaw as "the very flower of ...

Col. Robert Gould Shaw was the commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the first all-black regiment to fight for the Union during the Civil War. The story is ...

Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 - July 18 ... These letters are located in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. The book, "Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune," includes most of his letters ...

And thanks to a reprieve from all the heavy rain, many spent the day visiting historical sites like the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on ... Benjamin Hill signed the Book of History, which marks ...

Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first unit of free African Americans recruited into the Union army. Shaw was killed while leading the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment in an ...

The memorial honors Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the Civil War’s first black units. The museum exhibit, “Tell It with Pride,” looks at the soldiers ...