Confederate flag found on Boston memorial to all-black Civil War regiment
BOSTON – An unknown vandal attached a Confederate battle flag to a memorial honoring an all-black regiment that fought for the Union during the Civil War.
The flag was discovered and removed from the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial by a private citizen on Sunday night, according to The Boston Globe. The Lowell woman threw the flag in the trash.
Shaw led the regiment that formed shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation allowed for volunteer units of African-American soldiers, according to the memorial's website. The 54th Regiment was the subject of the acclaimed historical drama film "Glory," released in 1989 with Matthew Broderick as Shaw and Denzel Washington as a private in the unit.
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