Word: 54th
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...Justin Winsor will preside and the services will be opened with a prayer by the Rev. S. D. McConnell, D. D., of Brooklyn. The Glee Club will then sing the Harvard Hymn and Major Henry Lee Higginson will deliver the address on Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Mass. Regiment. At the close of the services the audience will join in singing the National Hymn, which will be followed by the Benediction...
...junior year. He entered the army before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National Guards. He soon exchanged to the 2d Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63, Governor Andrews gave him charge of the 54th Massachusetts, infantry. This regiment was the first colored regiment to be sent to the war, and at the end of May of the same year left Boston for the front. On the 18th of the next July Colonel Shaw was killed while leading his men in the charge on Fort Wagner...
...annual Memorial Day service, at which Dr. Justin Winsor will preside, is to be held on Sunday, May 30th, at 4 o'clock. Major H. L. Higginson will make the address on Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts infantry. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard in the class of '60 but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National Guards. He soon exchanged to the 2d Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63 Governor...
Major Higginson served under Colonel Shaw in the 54th regiment and was his close friend, so the address is sure to be in the highest degree interesting and instructive...
...second week will be a brilliant one, as this beautiful artist will appear in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Leah, the Forsaken." She will be supported by nearly the same company as when she was here last, headed by John E. Kellerd and Louis Massen. Miss Burroughs' engagement closes the 54th regular season of the theatre, and promises to be highly successful...