Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997. Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985. Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater ...

The Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, located on Boston Common across from the Massachusetts State House, is considered by many to be Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ greatest ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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.