Blue-Eyed Child Of Fortune: The Civil War Letters Of Robert Gould Shaw; Editor: Duncan, Russell; Introduction: Mcfeely, William S.; Paperback

Editor: Duncan, Russell; Introduction: Mcfeely, William S.
Paperback; 43 B&w Photographs, 1 Map
480 pages
Published: November 1999
University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820321745

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 ofage 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.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.