Lay this laurel : an album on the Saint-Gaudens memorial on Boston Common, honoring Black and white men together, who served the Union cause with Robert Gould Shaw and died with him July 18, 1863

One of the most compelling Civil War stories is that of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment, made up of African-American soldiers who volunteered for the Union Army. Their heroic but futile battle at Fort Wagner was memorialized by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common in 1897. Both the commemorative book and limited-edition volume depict the monument in stirring detail while celebrating its 100-year anniversary. For photography connoisseurs and Civil War buffs. First Edition, 1973 With Photographs By Richard Benson And An Essay By Lincoln Kirstein. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [81]-[82]).