It is well known that Shaw fell in this famous battle with the 54th Massachusetts in the American Civil War and was buried with his men. However, I can't find the source to save my life, but I remember reading or seeing somewhere that before he was buried his body was paraded around in the fort, I presume in a mocking way, before he was "buried with his niggers" according the commanding Confederate officer Haygood. Does anyone know more about this?
I believe it may have been spoken of in Ken Burn's The Civil War documentary but not sure if it was there and, if so, where that info was sourced from.
I haven't ever heard this story (about Shaw's body getting paraded around). In Burns' doc, IIRC it was mentioned that he was buried with his men in what was thought to be an insulting gesture, but that was the end of it via that source.
Likewise, everything I've ever read on the subject leaves it at that (that Shaw was thrown in a burial pit with his fallen soldiers). This would have definitely been perceived as an insult, not just on racial grounds, but also in relation to the common courtesy of the day, which usually held that the bodies of officers were (whenever possible) to either be buried in a marked grave, or turned over to the other side for return to the family. Surprisingly, this happened quite a bit (returning an officer's body across the lines), and was a practice both sides respected when practical to do so.