Remembering Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Join me for a special presentation on the 160th anniversary of the assault on Battery Wagner.
My apologies for this late announcement. Somehow the 160th anniversary of the assault on Battery Wagner by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (July 18, 1863) crept up on me without notice.
I am certainly not going to allow it to pass without some kind of recognition.
With that in mind, I…
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