Robert Gould Shaw - Marriage

Marriage

On May 2, 1863, Shaw married Anna Kneeland Haggerty (1835–1907) in New York City. They decided to marry before the unit left Boston despite their parents' misgivings. They spent their brief honeymoon at the Haggerty farm in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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