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Blue-eyed child of fortune : the Civil War letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw /

Through nearly two hundred letters, the son of a wealthy Boston abolitionist wrote of his experiences as the commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry in the Civil War. The portrait that emerges is of a man more divided and complex--though no less heroic--than the Shaw depicted in the c...

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Main Author: Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863
Other Authors: Duncan, Russell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1992].
Subjects:
Shaw, Robert Gould, > 1837-1863 > Correspondence.
United States. > Army. > Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865) > History.
Soldiers > United States > Correspondence.
Soldiers > Massachusetts > Correspondence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
Massachusetts > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
Massachusetts > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780820342771
0820342777
0820321745
9780820321745
128330371X
9781283303712
9786613303714
6613303712
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / William S. McFeely
  • Introduction: Robert Gould Shaw: A Biographical Essay
  • "Goodbye the Drum Is Beating"
  • "The Road through the Woods"
  • "John Brown's Prison"
  • "A Regular Old Jog Trot Camp Life"
  • "Ladies with Petticoats About"
  • "What War Really Is"
  • "A Lull before the Storm"
  • "Metallic Coffins"
  • "Even More than Mother"
  • "I as a Nigger Colonel"
  • "The Camp at Readville"
  • "So Fine a Set of Men"
  • "The Burning of Darien"
  • "Montgomery the Kansas Man"
  • "God Isn't Very Far Off"
  • "Nothing but Praise."

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