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Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was the 25-year-old leader of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first official African American regiments in the Civil War. The Battle of Fort Wagner, fought on ...

The Shaw Memorial, by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, stands 11 feet by 14 feet, like a giant bronze diorama, on the corner of Boston Common. In it, 40 or so black soldiers march to war ...

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Following the Battle of Antietam, Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is offered command of the United States' first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1863, Union troops led by Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the African American soldiers in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment attacked Fort Wagner in South Carolina. In ...

Following the Battle of Antietam, Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is offered command of the United States' first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.