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Robert Gould Shaw leads Black infantry's doomed assault on Fort Wagner | July 18, 1863 | HISTORY
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Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and 272 of his troops are killed in an assault on Fort Wagner, near Charleston, South Carolina. Shaw was commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, perhaps the most famous regiment of African American troops during the war.
Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and 272 of his troops are killed in an assault on Fort Wagner, near Charleston, South Carolina. Shaw was commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, perhaps the most famous regiment of African American troops during the war.
Robert Gould Shaw leads Black infantry's doomed assault on Fort Wagner | July 18, 1863 | HISTORY
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