Author: Russell Duncan, Ed
Title: Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Binding: Paper
Book Condition: New
Publisher: Athens University of Georgia Press 1999
ISBN Number: 0-8203-2174-5
Our Product Number: LDJ008
428 pp., index. Only two months after his marriage, twenty-six-year-old Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the Union Army's vanguard black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, gave his life to the cause of freedom. These letters portray the young colonel in his own words, revealing a man sometimes very different from the Shaw lauded in art, poetry, and film. His frank and eloquent descriptions of his coming-of-age in upper-class Boston circles and his two years of battle vividly detail the transformation of a cosmopolitan son into a disciplined and devoted soldier.
Keywords: Genealogy Civil War Massachusetts
Price = 17.95 USD
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