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city.• *A Lowell war veteran makes the following criticism on the arrangementsfor the dedication of the monument toCol Robert G. Shaw in Boston, May 31;“I think the men who served with Col Shaw in the department of the south and of the South Atlantic squadron should be invited to attend the exercises.“What do we find? Gen Francis H. Appleton does not invite the survivors of the 2d Massachusetts regiment in which Col Shaw served nefore he Joined the 55th Massachusetts regiment.“The survivors of tne 55th and 56thMassachusetts regiments are justly invited, blit if it is the intention to honor the colored people of Boston why haven’t invitations been extended to the colored men of Boston who served In the navy which participated in the battles with Col Shaw,The 1st corps of cadets and the 7th N Y regiment is invited with the survivors of the 5th cavalry, hut no attention is paid to Rear Admiral Belknap,Col T. W. Hlffgihsotl, who commanded I valt;h a colored regiment in the departmentIn which Col Shaw’s regiment served, c ho*nor to the 7th N H regiment which lost | 8*li officers in an engagement in which vca Col Shaw’s regiment participated.lt; ’ol Shaw served 30 days in the 7th N Y regiment before the war, and that regiment is honored with an invitation Tay to attend the dedication of his menu- ( MU, rnent. lt;Joh“Capt Shaw, afterward colonel of the j the 55th Massachusetts regiment, was at Cedar mountain with the 2d Massachusetts regiment when Judge Abbott’* son was killed and many Lowell men wounded. The 5th cavalry, which never served w:th Col Shaw, is honored with an invitation, but the 2d Massachusetts regiment, of which he was once a captain, is ignored.“The men serving in the departmentrug,formectheT1altrAidboapasiis ia nartscityTitinuingamher?the}ougexpWliefOXIQIthelastthe}fordftltn a ndentrie iA]nottestinaithe}Aimdonraecwhfof the south ami in the South Atlantic theA1maras lt;hisagnsquadron subscribed for a monument toCol Shaw immediately after Ills death.The money was used to build the Robert G. Shaw colored school :n Charleston, S C. Men who never served a day in the war of the rebellion are now j eith given places %f honor in the coming drai dedication of the monument in Boston.“The men who subscribed their money to build the charleston schoolhouse in honor of their fellow comrade are ignored. The commit tee in charge may not think it is not causing any comment, but 1 hear men of the 2d Massachusetts veterans in Lowell, and also ! feel officers of the department I have men- ! aga tioned, say they did not think it was j rpjK» right that they should not be Invited.It is not too late to remedy this over-son r to o Vi thezemcliff t proitherrK
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Boston Sunday Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, Apr 25, 1897
Page 70
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