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Robert Archibald Shaw was born on 9 August 1927 at 51 King Street in Westhoughton, Lancashire, [1] the son of Thomas Archibald Shaw and Doreen Nora, née Avery. His father, a doctor and former Royal Field Artillery Lieutenant, was of Scottish descent; his mother, a former nurse, was born at Piggs Peak, Swaziland.
[2] [3] A central feature is the State Mound, featuring a Kentucky War Memorial designed by Robert E. Launitz and inscribed with the names of officers killed in numerous wars. [4] During the American Civil War , Frankfort Cemetery was used for the final resting place of soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
A monument to Robert Gould Shaw, a Union soldier who led the first all-black regiment in the American Civil War and died in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, was erected here by his family. [3] The Moravian Cemetery is the burial place for a number of famous Staten Islanders, including members of the Vanderbilt family. [1]
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial: African American Civil War Soldiers: Boston Common,Boston, MA: Augustus Saint-Gaudens: 1897 [1] Statue of Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass Memorial Square, Rochester, NY. Sidney W. Edwards: 1899 Douglass & family lived in Rochester 25 years, he's buried in Rochester. Colored Soldiers ...
Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky.. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area.
A relief portrait of General Robert E. Lee is located directly beneath the statue. The inscription reads: [3] THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE 67 BRAVE MEN BURIED HERE, WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. _____ "LORD GOD OF HOSTS BE WITH US YET, LEST WE FORGET, LEST WE FORGET."
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Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863), commander of the African-American 54th Massachusetts Regiment, subject of the movie Glory [8] is likely buried in one of the 3,607 unknown gravesites in the cemetery.