Andrew "Andy" Keith Anderson Memorial Website
  • Home
  • Andy's Home Page
  • This Kid Called Andy
  • Andy's Gettysburg-Why the South Lost at Gettysburg
  • Andy the Union Soldier
  • Andy's Accomplishments
  • Special Recognition
  • Andy's Studio
    • Andy the Artist
    • Gallery I
    • Gallery II
    • Gallery III
    • Gallery IV
  • Andy's Final Concert
  • The Poet's Corner
  • The Promise
  • The Concert Hall
  • Lovers of the Sea
  • Andy's Family Album
  • Andy's Past Memorials and Tributes
  • The Voyage Home
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Links
  • In Memory of Artie

    Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

Picture
Inspired by the movie "Glory", Andy's interest in the Civil War only deepened as he learned more about this man: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts. His mother told me that they traveled up and down the eastern seaboard, walking the path that Shaw himself had taken. He died in the battle to take Battery Wagner, on Morris Island, South Carolina - an area now completely under water. A total of 1757 men were killed or wounded in the attack led by the young Col Shaw and the 54th on May 10th, 1863. Shaw was 25 years of age at the time of his death. 

(The difference between a 'fort' and a 'battery' is the enclosure of the fortification. While the 'fort' is enclosed on four sides, the 'battery' is enclosed on three sides. Wagner was therefore a 'battery', since it's fourth side faced the open waters.)



Andy's Magnolias  

Picture

Thank you for visiting Andy's Life 


Hours

M-F: 7am - 9pm

Telephone

415-555-1234

Email

info@email.com