Word: regimentally
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Frozen in bronze, the black infantrymen trudge forever forward, their rifles scraping the metaled sky. On horseback alongside them, stern, proud, aristocratic, rides their young colonel, Robert Gould Shaw. Here, just across from the gold-domed statehouse, Shaw led the North's first black regiment down Beacon Street and off to war. "The very flower of grace and chivalry," John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of Shaw's departure, "he seemed to me beautiful and awful, as an angel of God come down to lead the host of freedom to victory...
...command the first black regiment in the war against slavery was an ambiguous honor, particularly since slavery was still legal. Only after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 could Governor John Andrew of Massachusetts recruit a black regiment, and though he promised equal pay of $13 a month, the War Department voted only $10. The Confederates reacted by announcing that any black soldiers taken prisoner would be treated as runaway slaves, and their white officers considered guilty of incitement to insurrection, both subject to the death penalty...
...three other Brahmins formed a new committee and commissioned the young Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create a memorial. Saint-Gaudens envisioned a giant equestrian statue. The Shaws objected. They wanted their son portrayed together with his men. Saint-Gaudens designed a relief of the regiment on the march, but the press of other commissions was so great that he took 14 years more to complete what Bostonians call "the Shaw...
Following his dismissal from the party, the army kicked Uspensky out of the intelligence service, but because he was intelligent and capable, the army gave him command of an infantry regiment. Uspensky grins at the memory. "The funny thing about it was that on the intelligence staff all I did was sit with maps analyzing information. As a commander, I was in a position to open the front to the Germans...
...northern Iraqi cities of Kirkuk, Mosul and Baghdad. Tehran claimed it had shot down 57 Iraqi planes, destroyed scores of tanks and armored personnel carriers, as well as six missile boats, a merchant ship and 67 military bases and key industrial sites. Tehran also claimed that an entire Iraqi regiment of 600 men had surrendered after Iranian forces trapped them in a pincer movement on the northern front...