Harriet Tubman at the Shaw Memorial

Legacy of the 54th

Item contributed by National Parks of Boston

Harriet Tubman, who worked with the 54th during the Civil War, visited the Memorial in 1905 as part of a Memorial Day commemoration. During the ceremony, Tubman “bent with the weight of years, gazed long and tenderly at the magnificent work of the sculptor and dropped a silent tear for the departed dead.”