Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Memorial Society. After the opening prayer by the Rev. S. D. McConnell, D. D., and the singing of the Harvard Hymn by the Glee Club, Dr. Justin Winsor introduced Major Henry Lee Higginson, who delivered a most impressive address on Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment...
Among the first regiments to march was the splendid 7th Regiment, the New York National Guard, in which Robert Shaw served as a private. "As it swung out from Union Square into Broadway it was greeted with a roar which lasted all the way to the Battery, where it embarked, and Robert Shaw, the flank man of his platoon, was seized and kissed by man after man as they marched down Broadway." He was young, graceful, and handsome; every one liked him, every one trusted him implicitly. He was neither sentimental nor ostentatious, and did his full share...
Shaw was soon exchanged to the 2nd Massachusetts and promoted to lieutenancy. In this regiment he received his military schooling during two years of fighting in Virginia, and its honor was his honor...
...address is of special interest this year as Major Higginson served with Colonel Shaw in the 2d Mass. Regiment and was his close friend and comrade. 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 Andrews gave him charge of the 54th Massachusetts, infantry. This regiment was the first colored...
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.- Monday evening, May 31, will be "Millitary Night," when the "New York Seventh Regiment March" will be played, also selections from "Simple Simon" and other productions of the Cadets. The programme will also include the "American Fantasy" by Herbert, the "Waltz Militare" by Ganne, the "1812" and "Tobasco" Overtures, and other appropriate selections...