A Brave Black Regiment: The History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865
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This book draws together the Civil War correspondence of Robert Gould Shaw, the young colonel who led the North's vanguard black regiment, the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry. Killed in 1863 while leading his men in an assault on a fort protecting Charleston Harbor, Shaw was memorialized in numerous poems, in a magnificent sculpture on Boston Common, and in the Oscar-winning film Glory. Yet, as this book reveals, he accepted command of the Fifty-fourth with great reluctance, and he remained a much more divided and complex—if no less heroic—figure than his legend would have it.
| Country | USA |
| Brand | University of Georgia Press |
| Manufacturer | University of Georgia Press |
| Binding | Paperback |
| ItemPartNumber | 43 b&w photographs, 1 map |
| ReleaseDate | 1999-11-18 |
| UnitCount | 1 |
| Format | Illustrated |
| EANs | 9780820321745 |
