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This and the next picture are of the Shaw Memorial, which commemorates the attack made by black soldiers under Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War. The attack, by the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment, was against the fortifications of Battery Wagner, on Morris Island protecting Charleston harbor. The soldiers' charge, on July 18 1863, was hopeless. The soldiers killed during the attack were buried with Shaw in a pit after the battle. The monument sits outside of the state capitol building. The plaster mold for it is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. |