Blue-Eyed Child Of Fortune
The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives
African American Participation
United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers
Personal narratives
Correspondence
United States
History
On the Boston Common stands one of the great Civil War memorials, a magnificent bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It depicts the black soldiers of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry marching alongside their young white commander, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. When the philosopher William…
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