Robert Gould Shaw Sparknotes

Robert Gould Shaw was the Colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, he had shown bravery and leadership during the Battle of Antietam in which he survived. This led to his opinion and/or thoughts on colored soldiers, and his father had submitted Robert Shaw to be Colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Shortly after, Governor John Albion Andrew offered the role of Colonel to Robert G. Shaw. Throughout the movie and during the battles, Shaw would write and send out letters to both his mother and father. Colonel Robert Shaw had wanted to keep colored people fighting in the battle because he thought they actually deserved a chance to fight for their country. As Robert starts the training for the battles, he realizes that many of his men in the colored regiment were uneducated and weren’t serious about fighting and showed immaturity. As Shaw is giving out orders to his men to start training and practice shooting, Colonel Robert G. Shaw writes a letter to his mother, talking about how colored people are learning a lot faster than white people. Shaw begins talking about Jupiter’s skills, and
But, instead Robert felt guilty and bad, so he went into town and asked to get 600 shoes & 1,2000 socks for the 700 Union soldiers. Later after, the regiment and Colonel Robert Shaw had found out that the colored regiment would only get paid $10 a month, while whites would get $13 a month. Shaw saw how all his men felt about the money, so Robert decided that if that’s how they were going to pay them, in an unfair way he decided to rip up the paper in which had the information about the money. Robert felt happy in a way that he could let his men know that he wanted everyone to be treated equally. There were many orders which were given to Colonel Robert G. Shaw and his men, although they were orders from the higher ups Robert did not want to follow those