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Robert Gould Shaw was buried in a mass burial pit (grave) along with the other members of the 54th Massachusetts's Volunteer Infantry killed during the assault on Fort Wagner during the Civil War. Unfortunately, this grave site was in the sand dunes around Fort Wagner which bordered the Atlantic Ocean. Over time, storms and hurricanes tracking from the Atlantic Ocean contributed to heavy beach erosion and the bodies or their remains were washed out to sea. No trace of the original mass graves remain.

Ya they sort of made a ditch and picked up the dead bodies and threw them in there. It's sad but they aren't going to haul all of the dead bodies back with them so this was kind of their only choice.

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