Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regimen

[On the front of the monument, part of the relief itself]:

Omnia Relinqvit / Servare Rempvblicam

[Underneath the relief]:

Robert Gould Shaw

Colonel of the Fifty Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry

born in Boston 10 October MDCCCXXXVII

Killed while leading the assault on Fort Wagner

South Carolina ...