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54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment ("Glory" regiment) |
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| Col. Robert G. Shaw |
| Order Code : C-229 Pictured above. |
| Price: $17.00 |
| Soldier, Running |
| Order Code : C-230 Soldier has African-American features. Pictured above. |
| Price: $17.00 |
| Soldier, Advancing |
| Order Code : C-231 Soldier has African-American features. Pictured above. |
| Price: $17.00 |
| Born to an outspoken abolitionist family of Boston in 1837, Robert Gould Shaw was serving as a captain in the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry when John Andrews, governor of the state, asked Shaw to raise the first African-American regiment in the northern states. |
| Free black men from all over New England joined, and the regiment was mustered into service on 13 May 1863 with the 25-year-old Shaw as their colonel. The men were to be equipped and paid as their white counterparts, but the federal government one-sidedly decided to reduce their pay from $13.00 per month to $10.00, as it was convinced that black troops would not fight. |
| Sent to South Carolina, the regiment saw action on James Island on the 13th and 16th of July, 1863. During the night of 18 July, the 54th Massachusetts and two brigades of white soldiers attacked the Confederate Fort Wagner on Morris Island, which guarded Charleston Harbor. |
| During this ill-fated attack, Col. Shaw and over 270 men of the 650 engaged died during this brave but fruitless assault against the sand walls of the fort. The Confederates, outraged that black soldiers dared to fight them, buried their bodies, together with Col. Shaw, in a common pit. Upon hearing of his loss, his parents believed that this was the way their son would have wanted it. |
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