Gould shaw, one of the civil wars first africanamerican units. The work specifically commemorates the july 18th, 1863 storming of Fort Wagner in which onethird of the 51sts men or officers were killed or wounded. Tell it with pride seeks to shine a spotlight on the group. Good morning. Im sarah greenough, the senior curator of photographs here at the national gallery of art, and i am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augusta Saint God dins began to work on this memorial in 1883. Initially he was going to take it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself. If you look at some of the examples in the case behind you, youll see one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict Colonel Robert Gould Shaw on a horse. That kind of depiction is often referred to as the man on the mount. However, colonel Shaws Family objected to that. They shout such a depiction was too grand a way to show their son. He was, after all, only 25 years old when he was killed at the battle of Fort Wagner. They th
Courage, family, and citizenship to counteract prevailing stereotypes, and the national archives hosted this talk and provided the video. Greetings from the national archives. Im david fairio, archivist of the united states. And it is my pleasure to present Deborah Willis Author of the black civil War Soldier. The civil war was the most prolonged conflict to be extensively be recorded in photographs. This visual record gives a sense of immediacy that we dont have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war and other earlier conflicts. We can identify individual faces and imagine ourselves in the battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are in the national archives but photos of the black soldiers are rare. In the book the black civil War Soldier Deborah Willis shows us the faces of the number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record, she examines not only the individual stories of th
The areas for battlefields, but his real passion. Is telling the story of the united States Colored troops, hes really made this a Passion Project has helped cofound a group of reenactors that tell the story of the 23rd united States Color troops the unit that first encountered robert e. Lees army here in the eastern theater in the summer of 1864, and hes also done some work with this in massachusetts guys, that folks maybe have heard of who have done a little work in the Movie Glory who are those folks right stuart is is tireless in telling the story of the united States Color troops men who found the inspiration to fight for their own freedom and in very literal sense gave a new birth of freedom and new meaning to the civil war. So its my Delight And Pleasure to introduce my friend steward henderson. Thank you, chris. Good morning. Chris makes everything seem like it was such a long time, but i would tell you if you saw a picture of me then i looked 30 years younger. But im a living
Military park as well as a living historian with two different Colored Troops regiments. This talk was hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Welcome back to the emerging civil war virtual symposium. Im chris mackowiski. Thanks so much for joining us. Its my pleasure to introduce my good friend Stuart Henderson whom i have known forever and forever. We started working together 16 years ago and since that time, stuart has joined the staff as a historian. You can find him in summers giving guided tours on all of the areas for battlefields. But his real passion is telling the story of the United States Colored Troops. Hes really made this a passion project. He helped cofound a group of reenactors that tell the story of the 23rd United States Colored Troops. The group that first encounted Robert E. Lees army here in the summer of 1864 and done some work with massachusetts guys that folks who have heard of, who have done a little work in the Movie Glory. Stuart is tireless in telling the st
Photographs here at the national gallery of art and i am the cocurator of this exhibition. Augusta saint gardens began to work on this memorial in 1883 and initially he was going to make it a monument just dedicated to shaw himself and if you look at some of the examples we have in the case behind you youll see that one of his first ideas for the monument was to depict Colonel Robert Gould Shaw on a horse that kind of depiction is often sort of referred to as the man on the mount. However, colonel Shaws Family objected to that. They thought such was too grand away. To show their young son. He was after all only 25 years old when he was killed at the battle of Fort Wagner and they thought that that kind of depiction was better reserved for generals and not a colonel like shaw moreover. Shaws family felt that it would be more appropriate to show him with his troops. So saying gods went back to the Drawing Board quite literally and came up with this conception with the idea of putting sha