Poetry About the Fifty-Fourth and Robert Shaw




For the Union Dead -- Robert Lowell (1960)

First published in 1960 in the Atlantic Monthly. Inspired by Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial at Boston Common






Robert Gould Shaw -- Paul Lawrence Dunbar



The Flag -- Anonymous -- Harper's Weekly (6-13-1863)

Dedicated to Robert G. Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment



One Grave -- Anonymous – Harper's Weekly (11-5-1863)

About the fact that Shaw ended up buried with his men.



Hero of Fort Wagner -- Phoebe Cary






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