Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune - Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

Informationen zum Autor Robert Gould Shaw (Author) > Russell Duncan (Editor) RUSSELL DUNCAN is a professor of history in the English Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of several books, including First Person Past: American Autobiographies , Freedom's Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen (Georgia), and Entrepreneur for Equality: Governor Rufus Bullock, Commerce, and Race in Post-Civil War Georgia (Georgia). Klappentext Only two months after his marriage, twenty-six-year-old Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the Union Army's vanguard black regiment, gave his life to the cause of freedom. These letters portray the celebrated abolitionist hero in his own words, revealing a man sometimes very different from the Shaw lauded in art, poetry, and film. Shaw's frank and eloquent descriptions of his coming of age in upper-class Boston circles and in two years of battle vividly detail the transformation of a cosmopolitan son into a disciplined and devoted soldier. Zusammenfassung The letters presented in this volume portray abolitionist hero Robert Gould Shaw in his own words! as he describes his coming of age in upper-class Boston circles and in two years of battle. They detail the transformation of a cosmopolitan son into a disciplines soldier.

Product details

• Authors: Cvc, Robert Gould Cvc Shaw, Robert Shaw, Robert Gould Shaw
• Assisted by: Russell Duncan (Editor), Russell (University of Copenhagen) Duncan (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.1999
• EAN: 9780820321745
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2174-5
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)