Robert G Shaw
Title: Robert G Shaw
Category: History
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Robert G Shaw
Robert Gould Shaw was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 10, 1837. His mother was twenty-two years old and his father was twenty-eight years old. Shaw was the second and only son of Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw and Francis George Shaw, both strong abolitionists. Shaw had a very prominent upbringing. He grew familiar with nannies, housekeepers, and servants to children of his social standing. Shaw played with his older sister Anna, and his younger sisters, Susanna, Josephine, …showed first 75 words of 2493 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2493 total…had taken when they first departed for war. After the battle of Fort Wagner, recruitment in the North was stirred. By the end of the Civil War, over 175,000 black men had volunteered to serve for the Union. They accounted for 10% of the North’s army and navy. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw has two memorial raised in his honor: Saint Gauden’s great Shaw Memorial, and William Vaughn Moody’s “Ode in Time of Hesitation.”
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