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Blue-eyed child of fortune : the Civil War letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw / edited by Russell Duncan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
- Soldiers.
- Soldiers--Massachusetts--Correspondence.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- United States.
- Massachusetts--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Massachusetts.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.
- Massachusetts--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.
- United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)--History.
- Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863--Correspondence.
- Shaw, Robert Gould.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 428 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Editorial Method
- Abbreviations in Notes
- INTRODUCTION: A Biographical Essay
- CHAPTER ONE: "Goodbye the Drum Is Beating
- CHAPTER TWO: "The Road through the Woods
- CHAPTER THREE: "John Brown's Prison
- CHAPTER FOUR: "A Regular Old Jog Trot Camp Life
- CHAPTER FIVE: "Ladies with Petticoats About
- CHAPTER SIX: "What War Really Is
- CHAPTER SEVEN: "A Lull before the Storm
- CHAPTER EIGHT: "Metallic Coffins
- CHAPTER NINE: "Even More than Mother
- CHAPTER TEN: "I as a Nigger Colonel
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: "The Camp at Readville
- CHAPTER TWELVE: "So Fine a Set of Men
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "The Burning of Darien
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: "Montgomery the Kansas Man
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: "God Isn't Very Far Off
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: "Nothing but Praise
- Appendix
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-404) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613303714
- 9780820321745
- 0820321745
- 9781283303712
- 128330371X
- 9780820342771
- 0820342777
- OCLC:
- 763161333
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