Col. Robert Gould Shaw, sans sword, cuts deep

Calendar June 1, 2010 | Posted by javal

What happened to Col. Robert Gould Shaw’s sword?

The mystery of the war hero’s missing blade “sticks like a fishbone in the city’s throat,” to steal a line from Robert Lowell’s poem about the monument to Shaw and the black soldiers of the storied 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment that he led

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