CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL ALLEGEDLY VANDALISED
Boston: A sword of a memorial depicting the famed 54th Massachusetts Civil War regiment, featured in the Denzel Washington movie Glory, has been allegedly vandalised. Boston police are investigating after the damage was reported on Tuesday. They suspect vandalism. National Park Service spokesman Sean Hennessey tells the Boston Globe it's happened frequently enough that there are fiberglass replacement swords on hand. The memorial is by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It depicts the free black men who formed a regiment led by Robert Gould Shaw, the son of a white abolitionist family. The regiment was made famous by its 1863 attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. —