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The bulk of the collection consists of letters by Robert Gould Shaw to his family, including 98 letters to his mother, 31 to his father, and some to his sisters and brothers-in-law. Most were written during the Civil War, though some to his parents are from his pre-soldier days when he traveled in Europe and was a student at Harvard.
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Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863) was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born into a Boston upper class abolitionist family, he accepted command of the first all-black regiment (the 54th Massachusetts) in the Northeast.
- 1861–1863
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- 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
- U.S. Army (Union Army)
1,104 pages of letters written by, and papers related to Colonel Robert G. Shaw, commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first official African-American units in the United States during the Civil War, copied from material held by the Houghton Library, DOWNLOAD.
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Apr 25, 2011 · As a member of the Seventh in April 1861, the 23-year-old Shaw, who was devoted to his family, wrote highly detailed and moving letters home describing the remarkable journey of the regiment...
Robert Gould Shaw served as colonel of the 54 th Massachusetts, one of the first Black regiments to fight in the Civil War. Born in Boston, Shaw grew up in the city’s elite social and political circles before the Civil War.
The bulk of the collection consists of letters by Robert Gould Shaw to his family, including 98 letters to his mother, 31 to his father, and some to his sisters and brothers-in-law. Most were written during the Civil War, though some to his parents are from his pre-war days when he traveled in Europe and was a student at Harvard.
background of history. While Colonel Robert G. Shaw exhibited tremendous leadership and. courage, historical accounts excessively exalt him by overlooking his reluctance to lead, ignoring. his prejudices, honoring his heroics over his soldiers’, and inaccurately portraying him in Glory.
