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This is number 356 of 585 Primary Sources.
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APUSH-14-D
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Caption: Abolitionist and Union army colonel. Shaw, born into a white, privileged family in Boston, became an ardent abolitionist. During the Civil War, he assumed leadership of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the first African American regiment organized in a free state. Shaw and many of his men were killed during the unit's ill-fated assault on Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina. The battle brought attention to the service of African American soldiers in the war. Shaw and the regiment were memorialized by the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in a monument on Boston Common.
Boston Athenæum.
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