Summary

THE SWORD CARRIED BY THE COLONEL MADE FAMOUS IN THE MOVIE GLORY IS DONATED TO A MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 170239
Story Slug Sword - Donation
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Format Pkg
Date 09/24/1999
Archive Time 29:48
TRT 1:26
Supers Boston, Massachusetts Rev Stephen Ayers, Old North Church Rep Byron Rushing, Historian Glory Marilyn Richardson, Historian Sylvia Watts McKinney, Museum of African American History Pam Cross, Reporting
Video Description FEMALE HOLDING SWORD; MALE MINISTER SOT; MALE SOT; MAN TALKING TO AUDIENCE; CROSSED SWORDS; SHAW PIC; GLORY FILM FOOTAGE; CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTMENT TROOP STANDING; FEMALE SOT; HOLDING SWORD; FEMALE SOT;
Description THE SWORD CARRIED BY THE COLONEL MADE FAMOUS IN THE MOVIE GLORY IS DONATED TO A MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Script LEAD: IT WAS THE GESTURE THAT WAS MIGHTIER THAT THE SWORD THE CEREMONIAL SWORD BELONGING TO CIVIL WAR HERO COLONEL ROBERT GOULD SHAW WAS PRESENTED TO THE MUSEUM OF AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY IN BOSTON AND ALTHOUGH THIS BIT OF HISTORY IS WORTH NEARLY 40 THOUSAND DOLLARS PAM CROSS REPORTS THIS GIFT WAS PRICELESS PKG SCRIPT: IT IS A PIECE OF STEEL, STEEPED IN HISTORY (sot) I don't know how to handle a sword TODAY THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND MEMBERS OF OLD NORTH CHURCH GAVE A HUNDRED YEAR OLD CEREMONIAL SWORD TO THE AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY (sot) to share some old Yankee sister institutions (sot) this sword real artifacts brought together to tell a true story THAT TRUE STORY FOR CHILDREN AND EVERYONE SAYS RUSHING INVOLVES THE BLACK AMERICANS WHO FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE WHITE WHO ENCOURAGED THEM THE CEREMONIAL SWORD WAS GIVEN TO ROBERT GOULD SHAW IN 1863 HE WAS THE SON OF PROMINENT BOSTONIANS AND WAS COMMANDER OF THE 54TH REGIMENT, THE FIRST BLACK REGIMENT IN THE CIVIL WAR AS DEPICTED IN THE MOVIE GLORY, SHAW AND HIS MEN DIED AFTER A VALOROUS FIGHT AT FORT WAGNER, SOUTH CAROLINA PART OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM IS THE AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE, BUILT BE FORMER SLAVES AND A KEY RECRUITING SPOT FOR THE 54TH REGIMENT (sot) to have the symbol of the 200-thousand black men who fought (sot) to have them recognized coming together (sot) it's not a picture in a book (sot) and the nice thing descendents of Shaw still living add to this story NORTHEAS
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