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    <mods:title>Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Infantry Regiment (Boston, Massachusetts)</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Saint-Gaudens, Augustus</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="date">1848-1907</mods:namePart>
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  <mods:abstract type="general" displayLabel="Scope and Contents note">The memorial commemorates Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and members of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the first African American regiment to be formed in the North during the American Civil War. Shaw, the regiment’s leader, is shown on horseback in control of his horse and staring forward. Cast in bas relief, three rows of Black infantrymen of various ages stride forward in unison behind him. This scene depicts the Massachusetts 54th Regiment parade march down Beacon Street in Boston on May 28, 1863, as they left the city for Beaufort, South Carolina. On July 18, 1863, nearly 250 of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment were killed, wounded, or captured at the Battle of Fort Wagner located on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor including the death of Shaw. Sargeant William H. Carney received a Medal of Honor for his courageous actions during the fight, the first African American to receive the medal. The Massachusetts 54th Regiment and the Battle of Fort Wagner were the subject of the epic Civil War film, Glory (1989).</mods:abstract>
  <mods:note type="image_accessibility_alt_text">An equestrian monument with Shaw astride horse and a bas-relief of marching Black soldiers of the 54th infantry.</mods:note>
  <mods:note type="preferredcitation">Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Infantry Regiment (Boston, Massachusetts), Brown University Library</mods:note>
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    <mods:dateCreated>May 31, 1897</mods:dateCreated>
    <mods:dateCreated encoding="w3cdtf" keyDate="yes" point="start">1897-05-31</mods:dateCreated>
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      <mods:placeTerm type="text" authority="naf" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79045553">Boston (Mass.)</mods:placeTerm>
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  <mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">Collection is open for research.</mods:accessCondition>
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  <mods:note displayLabel="Digital object made available by">Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)</mods:note>
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