Of all the sources that I am using to write about Robert Gould Shaw during his time with the Second Massachusetts Regiment, the letters of his fellow junior officers and close friends have been the most helpful. They regularly reference Shaw and offer important perspective on many of the same issues and events the he wrote about in his own letters home.
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