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If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?
— Robert Gould Shaw
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Robert Gould Shaw
military personnel
1837 – 1863
Robert Gould Shaw 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 in the Northeast. Supporting the promised equal treatment for his troops, he encouraged the men to refuse their pay until it was equal to that of white troops' wage.