Biography of robert gould shaw

Union Army political appointee (1837–1863)

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Robert Gould Shaw was born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in 1837. His parents, Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw, were well-known abolitionists and Unitarian intellectuals. Young Shaw spent his teen years traveling in Europe with his family, including to Rome, where he converted to Catholicism and attended school in Switzerland and Germany. Shaw attended Harvard from 1856 to 1859 and then worked in his uncle’s office on Long Island, New York. As a young man he had difficulty with authority and struggled with discipline at his various schools and in the 19th-century office setting.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Shaw volunteered for a 90-day enlistment with the 7th New York Militia. After three months, the regiment was dissolved, and Shaw joined the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, a newly formed regiment from his home state. He ended up being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the regiment’s Company H and from 1861 to 1862 fought in a number of bloody engagements, incl

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Robert Gould Shaw served as colonel of the 54^th Massachusetts, one of the first Black regiments to fight in the Civil War.

Born in Boston, Shaw grew up in the city’s elite social and political circles before the Civil War. His parents, Francis Shaw and Sarah Sturgis Shaw, committed themselves to societal improvement as reformers and abolitionists. Through their connections, Robert grew up surrounded by luminaries in the anti-slavery movement such as William Llyod Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe.¹

As a young adult, Shaw took little interest in his parents’ abolitionist and reform activities. Instead, he traveled abroad and later enrolled in Harvard but dropped out before graduation due to boredom and his own lack of direction.

After the firing on Fort Sumter and the onset of the Civil War, however, Shaw found purpose in military service. He enlisted as private, first in the defense of Washington D.C. with the 7^th New York regiment, and later as an officer with the 2^nd Massachusetts regiment in Virginia and Maryland.²

With President Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and subsequent call for Black regiments, Massachusetts governor John Andrew directed the formation of the 54^th Massachusetts, one of the first Black fighting units from the North.