Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw |
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| Author:
| Shaw, Robert Gould |
| Editor:
| Duncan, Russell |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-2174-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1999 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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During the Civil War, black soldiers of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry marched alongside their young white commander, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Through his letters to family and friends, a portrait emerges of a man more divided and complex-though no less heroic-than the Shaw depicted in the film Glory.
During the Civil War, black soldiers of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry marched alongside their young white commander, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Through his letters to family and friends, a portrait emerges of a man more divided and complex-though no less heroic-than the Shaw depicted in the film Glory.