"Through the cannon smoke of that dark night," declared the Atlantic Monthly, "the manhood of the colored race shines before many eyes thatwould not see." The New York Tribunebelieved that this battle "made Fort Wagner such a name to the colored race as Bunker Hill had been for ninety years to the white Yankees." When a Confederate officer reportedly replied to a request for thereturn of Shaw's bodywith the words "we have buried him with his niggers," Shaw's father quelled a northern effort to recover his son's body with these words: "We hold that a soldier's most appropriate burial-place is on the field where he has fallen."
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