Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw (1837-19??) was a Massachusetts aristocrat and United States Army officer during the War of Secession, serving in the 7th New York and 2nd Massachusetts volunteer infantry regiments. He saw action at the Battle of Camp Hill.

Shaw had been a liberal and an outspoken enemy of slavery before and during the war, but like many of his generation, after the war's end he held the black race responsible for the war and his country's humiliation. He spent the rest of his long life in Boston, taking out his frustrations on every black he met.