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Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863) was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born into an abolitionist family from the Boston upper class , he accepted command of the first all- black regiment (the 54th Massachusetts ) in the Northeast.
It was originally titled "Colonel Shaw and the Massachusetts' 54th" and published in Life Studies (1959). In the poem, Lowell uses the Robert Gould Shaw memorial as a symbolic device to comment on broader societal change, including racism and segregation, as well as his more personal struggle to cope with a rapidly changing Boston. [56]
The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial after the completed restoration project in 2021. In celebrating Shaw, Saint-Gaudens depicted Shaw on horseback, while the Massachusetts 54th is depicted in bas-relief, thus creating a "stylistically unprecedented" and "hybrid" work that modifies the traditional Western equestrian monument. [2]
Robert Gould Shaw II (sometimes referred to as RGS II) (June 16, 1872 – March 29, 1930) was a wealthy landowner, international polo player of the Myopia Hunt Club and socialite in the greater Boston area of Massachusetts.
One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment (1965) is a book by Peter Burchard, based on letters written by Robert Gould Shaw, white colonel of the first black regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. They were the first of what became the United States Colored Troops ...
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial. a casting of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial is located at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire, Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculptor, originally cast in 1897.
Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War . Robert Gould Shaw may also refer to: . Robert Gould Shaw II (1872–1930), landowner and socialite, cousin of the soldier
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial honoring 54th Massachusetts Regiment was dedicated in Boston Common. 1898 The Black congregation of the African Meeting House moved to Roxbury; the meeting house became a Jewish synagogue, representing new immigrants. By 1930 the South End and Roxbury were home to most of Boston's 21,000 African Americans. 1900