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...monument to Colonel Robert G. Shaw of the fifty-fourth Massachusetts, which has been for many years in preparation, is at last to be put up on Boston Common. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard with the class of '60, but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army just before the before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National guards. He soon exchanged to the second Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63 Governor Andrew gave him the command of the fifty-fourth...
...years after the war private subscriptions were taken up with the purpose of erecting a monument to Colonel Shaw's memory. The City of Boston gave a piece of ground on the Park St. end of the Common, opposite the State house, as a site for the monument. Mr. St. Gaudens was chosen as sculptor...
...once, but the inborn power of oratory that stood in his massive figure I could take for granted. I saw him standing on a corner and I can not remember that he was doing anything but the people in passing looked at him as if he were Bunker Hill monument...
After the long countermarch on North avenue, which allowed the six divisions of the long procession to see a portion of what was ahead and behind them, the procession was reviewed by Governor Wolcott beside the Washington Elm, and by Chief Marshal John Read opposite the Soldiers Monument. After being reviewed the 500 Harvard men marched into the yard by the north gate, and after hearty cheers for Harvard, Marshal Borden and Band Leader Howard, dispersed...
...route of the procession will be from Third street, Cambridge street, Windsor, Harvard, Columbia, Lafayette Square, Massachusetts avenue, Lee, Harvard, Harvard Square, Brattle Sq., Brattle street, Craigie, Concord avenue, Bond, Garden, Linnaen, Massachusetts avenue to Cogswell; countermarch, Massachusetts avenue, Waterhouse, past Washington Elm to Soldiers' Monument. At the Washington Elm the procession will be reviewed by the Lieutenant Governor and the Mayor of the city; also by the Chief Marshal, on Garden street, opposite Soldiers Monument. All but military bodies will form and march in single ranks in sections of eight front if possible, but not less than in columns...