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robert gould shaw memorial -- article: "for the union dead"

"For the Union Dead"

For the Union Dead

Robert Lowell's poem "For the Union Dead" is a 1960s look at the Shaw memorial. Nearly one hundred years after Shaw and the 54th Regiment marched to their death at Fort Wagner, how has the monument to them weathered time?


>	Traditional Memorials


>	Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
>	Frederick Douglass Memorial
>	Monument to the Alleviation of Pain


>	"Uncommon Soldiers: the Shaw Memorial"
>	"In All It&s Glory: The 54th Marches into Washington"
>	Memorial Dedication - May 31, 1897