Robert Gould Shaw was the white commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which entered battle in mid-1863. Shaw was killed soon after at Fort Wagner and buried with his comrades by ...
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The 54th Massachusetts: The Heroic Black Union RegimentThe enlistment was so successful that two regiments, the 54th and the 55th, were created. The Massachusetts governor chose Robert Gould Shaw, a 25-year-old officer who had been wounded at the ...
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