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| The North began recruiting black volunteers to fight in the Civil War in 1863. The Shaw Memorial (1884-1897), a bronze relief by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, is a tribute to the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first all-black battalion to go into battle during the Civil War. Captain Robert Gould Shaw, a 25-year-old Bostonian abolitionist, was chosen to lead the soldiers. A detail from the memorial, located on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, is shown here. | ||||||
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| Civil War, American; Boston; African American History; Saint-Gaudens, Augustus | ||||||
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