(1) Francis George Shaw, Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, and Ellen Shaw, all direct relatives of Robert Gould Shaw, (2) John Albion Andrew, the governor of Massachusetts, (3) Charles Garrison Harker and George Crockett Strong, Union generals, (4) Charlotte Forten Grimké, an antislavery activist, (5) James Montgomery, Union colonel. and (6) Frederick Douglass, former slave and celebrated abolitionist speaker/activist.