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Title: Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune : The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0820314595
ISBN 13: 9780820314594
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.823 pounds

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Nearly two hundred letters written by the Civil War hero depicted in the film Glory reveal his initial reluctance to accept the command of the North's first black regiment and show how his reluctance soon turned into loyalty and dedication.

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Russell Duncan is a professor of history in the English Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of several books, including First Person Past: American Autobiographies, Freedom�s Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen (Georgia), and Entrepreneur for Equality: Governor Rufus Bullock, Commerce, and Race in Post-Civil War Georgia (Georgia).

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