Exemption amounts vary greatly from state to state. New Jersey, for example, has no homestead exemption. In Massachusetts, the homestead exemption is $500,000. Florida's exemption, on the other hand, has no maximum dollar amount.In Florida, exemption is allowed as long as the property is no more than half an acre in a city or 160 acres elsewhere.xemption amounts vary greatly from state to state. New Jersey, for example, has no homestead exemption. In Massachusetts, the homestead exemption is $500,000. Florida's exemption, on the other hand, has no maximum dollar amount.
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 â¦during the Civil War. Unfortunately, this grave site was in the sand dunes around Fort Wagner which bordered the Atlantic Ocean.
The story of Shaw and the 54th were depicted in the 1989 film, 'Glory' which was based upon the Peter Burchard book, 'One Gallant Rush.' Shaw's collected letters were published in 1992 in 'Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.' Colonel, 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the only son Sarah Sturgis and Francis George Shaw, a wealthy merchant. He was educated in private academies in New York and Switzerland and by tutors in Europe. He returned to the US to attend Harvard, but did not take a degree, instead he left...