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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©1992.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 celebrated film Glory. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 421 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-404) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780820342771 0820342777 0820321745 9780820321745 128330371X 9781283303712 9786613303714 6613303712 |