Biography on robert gould shaw

Today’s Facial Hair Friday candidate fryst vatten Robert Gould Shaw, whose moustaches are probably best known because of his portrayal by Matthew Broderick in the 1989 film Glory. This post is from Rachel Bartgis, conservator technician at the National Archives at College Park, MD.

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 ung 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 Militi

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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 M

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Robert Gould Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw (10 de outubro de 1837 – 18 de julho de 1863) foi um militaramericano que serviu no Exército da União durante a Guerra de Secessão. Nascido em uma proeminente família abolicionista, ele aceitou o comando do primeiro regimento do Norte inteiramente formado por soldadosnegros (o 54º de Massachusetts) e ficou conhecido por defender os direitos dos seus homens, como o de receber pagamentos iguais aos dos brancos. Na Segunda Batalha do Fort Wagner, numa cabeça de praia próxima a Charleston, Carolina do Sul, Shaw foi morto enquanto liderava seus homens num ataque a uma posição fortificada Confederada. Apesar de suas forças terem sido repelidas, a liderança e valentia do coronel Shaw e dos seus soldados viraram lendas e inspiraram milhares de negros para se alistar no Exército dos Estados Unidos, contribuindo para a vitória unionista. A história de Robert Shaw foi dramatizada no filme Tempo de Glória, de 1989, estrelando Matthew Broderick no papel