Blue-eyed child of fortune : the Civil War letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw / edited by Russell Duncan
- Bib ID:
- 1059666
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1992
- xxiii, 421 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0820314595
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Foreword by William S. McFeely / xi
- Preface / xv
- Editorial Method / xxi
- Abbreviations in Notes / xxv
- INTRODUCTION
- Robert Gould Shaw: A Biographical Essay /
- CHAPTER ONE
- "Goodbye the Drum Is Beating" / 69
- CHAPTER TWO
- "The Road through the Woods" / 100
- CHAPTER THREE
- 'ohn Brown's Prison" / 111
- CHAPTER FOUR
- "A Regular Old Jog Trot Camp Life" / 130
- CHAPTER FIVE
- "Ladies with Petticoats About" / 154
- CHAPTER SIX
- "What WarReally Is" / 176
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- "A Lull before the Storm" I 199
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- "Metallic Coffins" / 271
- CHAPTER NINE
- "Even More than Mother" / 251
- CHAPTER TEN
- "I as a Niger Colonel" / 282
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- 'The Camp at Readville" / 295
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- "So Fine a Set ofMen" / 315
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- 'The Burning of Darien" / 331
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- "Montgomery the Kansas Man" / 353
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- "God Isn't Very Far Off" / 371
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- "Nothing but Praise" / 384
- Appendix/ 389
- Selected Bibliography / 391
- Index / 405.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-404) and index.
- Subject:
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- 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, Afro-American
- Massachusetts -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Afro-American
- Other authors/contributors:
- Duncan, Russell
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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