Across from the Massachusetts State House, at the edge of Boston Common, stands a bronze memorial that stops people mid-stride. It honors Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first Black regiments recruited in the North during the Civil War (if you've seen the film Glory, this is that regiment). Above all, look at their faces. Artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens spent fourteen years getting them right, and every soldier is an individual, a particular man with a particular face.