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Robert Gould Shaw

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Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

    Robert Gould Shaw

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • 10 Oct 1837 
    • Birth Location:
    • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • 18 Jul 1863 
    • Death Location:
    • Second Battle of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina 
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    • Notes: 

    • Col. Robert Gould Shaw was the commander of the all black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He was killed in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor. He was the principal subject of the 1989 film Glory in which he was depicted by actor Matthew Broderick.

  • Marriages for Robert Gould Shaw

    • Spouse:
    • Anna Kneeland Haggerty
    • Marriage Date:
    • 2 May 1863

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  • Sources for Robert Gould Shaw

    • 1 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1924, Vol. 78, p. 97.
    • 2 Breck, Samuel , Genealogy of the Breck Family Descended from Edward of Dorchester and His Brothers in America, Omaha: Rees Printing Company (1889), 34-35.
    • 3 Dudley, Dean , History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 1, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1886), 896.
    • 4 Hampton, Vernon B. , Staten Island's Claim to Fame: The Garden Spot of New York Harbor, Staten Island, New York: Richmond Borough Publishing and Printing Company (1925), 166.
    • 5 Porter, Joseph W., ed. , The Bangor Historical Magazine, Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr, Printer, JUL 1891 to JUN 1892, Vol. 7, p. 92.
    • 6 Roberts, Gary Boyd , Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 220, 224.
    • 8 Sturgis, Francis Shaw , The Descendants of Nath'l Russell Sturgis: With a Brief Introductory Sketch of His Ancestor s in England and . . ., Boston: Printed by G. H. Ellis (1925), 5.
    • 9 Watson, Marston , Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and D escendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 248-249.
    • 10 Watson, Marston , Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 3, Samuel Appleton and His Wif e Judith Everard . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2007), 215.