The final chapter of my biography of Robert Gould Shaw explores how he was remembered and commemorated in the years after the Civil War. It is not an exhaustive survey of Civil War memory surrounding Shaw. The chapter ends with the dedication of the Shaw/Fifty-fourth Massachusetts memorial in Boston in 1897 and is followed by a short epilogue to close t…
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