Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Colonel Shaw” in page 205 of Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3.:
...ile the Nationals, marching up uncovered toward the fort, lost a. little more than fifteen hundred men. The Confederates said they buried six hundred bodies of the Unionists.
Among them was that of Colonel Shaw , which was thrown into a deep trench that was filled above him with the slain of his colored troops, and so they were buried.
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