Col. Robert Gould Shaw was the commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, ... So Paine sent some of his men to retrieve it.

In this March 26, 2011, file photo, people walk past the memorial to Union Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, near the Statehouse in Boston.

The Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial honors one of the first documented African-American regiments formed in the North, which then-Massachusetts Gov. John Andrew ...

Relatives of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw’s sister unearthed the weapon in the attic of the family home recently. ... July 19, 1863: Shaw is buried in the rifle pits with his men.

The Latin inscription on Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s 1897 monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the African-American 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment reads: ... The colonel’s family rejected the ...

The long lost sword of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commanding officer of the North's first all-black regiment during the Civil War, has been acquired by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

On Tuesday morning, Boston police were called to investigate a broken sword carried by Robert Gould Shaw as part of the famous 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment Memorial on Boston Common.

Robert Gould Shaw was the white commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which entered battle in mid-1863. Shaw was killed soon after at Fort Wagner and buried with his comrades by ...

What happened to Col. Robert Gould Shaw’s sword? The mystery of the war hero’s missing blade “sticks like a fishbone in the city’s throat,” to steal a line from Robert Lowell’s poem ...

It depicts the men of the 54th Regiment, the first African-American unit in the Civil War, leaving Boston to march off to battle. They are led by the white Robert Gould Shaw on horseback.

At Wednesday's ceremony, there was a re-enactment of Shaw and his men marching up Beacon Street past the State House on May 28, 1863, as seen in the memorial. It was originally unveiled in 1897.