The Morning Robert Gould Shaw Stepped Forward
On a January evening in 1863, Robert Gould Shaw sat at his family's dinner table in Boston when a letter arrived from Governor Andrew offering...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 6:1-8.
On a January evening in 1863, Robert Gould Shaw sat at his family's dinner table in Boston when a letter arrived from Governor Andrew offering him command of the 54th Massachusetts — the first Black regiment raised in the North. Shaw was twenty-five. He had already seen the carnage at Antietam, already knew what war cost. His first instinct was to refuse.…
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