Dec 21, 2009
Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune | Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune
At a glance:
- Author: Russell Duncan
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: April, 1861-July, 1863
- Setting: Primarily northern Virginia and the coast of South Carolina
- Principal Characters: Robert Gould Shaw, Francis George Shaw, Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, Anna Shaw Curtis, Josephine “Effie” Shaw Lowell, Susanna “Susie” Shaw, Ellen “Nellie” Shaw, Annie Kneeland Haggerty Shaw, Colonel James M. Montgomery, John A. Andrew, Charlotte Forten
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History, Letters, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Abolitionists, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, Military life or service, Soldiers, Patriotism, Confederate States of America
- Locales: Virginia, South Carolina
Robert Gould Shaw was, from any purely military standpoint, a minor figure in the Civil War.
Nevertheless, his position as white leader of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, the premier regiment
of Union African American troops, one of the first to fight in the war, brought him and many of his
men a hero’s death and earned them a magnificent monument created by the sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens on the grounds of Boston Common. Relegated to footnotes during most of
the twentieth century, Shaw was brought back to public attention as the subject of the Academy
Award-winning film Glory in...
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