I couldn’t travel to the low country without visiting Darien and St. Simon Island, Georgia. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts had barely arrived in Beaufort before they set out for St. Simons Island and found themselves involved in the burning of the small river town.
It was also Shaw’s introduction to Col. James Montgomery, who commanded the…
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