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Robert Gould Shaw

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I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.


— Robert Gould Shaw


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If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?


— Robert Gould Shaw


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In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.


— Robert Gould Shaw


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Did you know about Robert Gould Shaw?

The book Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune includes most of his letters and a brief biography of Shaw. A monument to Shaw's memory was erected by his family in the plot at Moravian Cemetery in Staten Island New York. [citation needed]


Memorials

In 1864 sculptor Edmonia Lewis created a bust of Shaw.

As Colonel he commanded the all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment which entered the war in 1863. He was killed in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner near Charleston South Carolina. Robert Gould Shaw (October 10 1837 – July 18 1863) was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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