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Robert Gould Shaw
"There they march, warm-blooded champions of a better day for man.
Where was robert gould shaw born
There on horseback among them, in his very habit as he lived, sits the blue-eyed child of fortune, upon whose happy youth every divinity had smiled . . . "
Oration by William James at the exercises in the Boston Music Hall, May 31, , upon the unveiling of the Shaw Monument.
Despite his image in the film Glory, Robert Gould Shaw was a reluctant leader of the famous 54th Massachusetts Infantry, one of the first African American regiments in the Civil War.
At the time he took command of the 54th in , Shaw was 25 years old and had already taken part in several battles with his old regiment, the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, including engagements at Cedar Mountain and Antietam.
Shaw was hesitant to leave his comrades for service in a regiment that he doubted would ever see action.
Born to a prominent Boston abolitionist family in , Shaw did not share the passion of his parents for f