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The ''Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment'' is a bronze relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at 24 Beacon Street, Boston (at the edge of the Boston Common), depicting the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry marching down Beacon Street on May 28, 1863. It was unveiled May 31, 1897.〔http://www.nps.gov/boaf/historyculture/shaw.htm〕 ==History== An inscription on the relief itself reads ("He left behind everything to save the Republic"). The pedestal below carries lines from James Russell Lowell's poem "Memoriae Positum": On the rear are the words of Charles W. Eliot: A plaster cast, which exhibited at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, is at the National Gallery of Art,〔http://www.nga.gov/feature/shaw/〕 on loan by the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Gould Shaw Memorial」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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