I’ve tried my best, over the course of reading and writing about Robert Gould Shaw, to push aside the fact that he would eventually come to command a regiment of Black soldiers in early 1863. Shaw will be forever associated with the men of the 54th Massachusetts and righfully so, but this perspective can hinder the …
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