One gallant rush
Robert Gould Shaw and his brave black regiment
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Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveonegallantrushro00burc
- Internet Archiveonegallantrush0000unse
- ISBN-10031204643X
- ISBN-139780312046439
- Better World BooksW7-ARI-818
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- Better World BooksW7-BFX-210
- Better World Books9780312046439
- Open LibraryOL24388645M
Classifications
- LCCE513.5 54th .B8
Description
Basis for the movie Glory, which starred Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Matthew Broderick, and Denzel Washington (who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor). Biography of Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw was born a child of privalege, and raised to be an abolitionist and a devout Christian. When the war started, he saw it as his duty to enlist, first serving in the ranks of a New York regiment, and later securing appointment as a Captain in the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry. When the Emancipation Proclamation was announced and the recruiting of Black soldiers began (this was part of the actual proclamation) the governor of Massachussetts decided to recruit his own regiment of Blacks, and appointed Shaw to be the colonel. The regiment served briefly in the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, before leading the charge on Fort Wagner, to the south of the city, in which Shaw was killed and the regiment decimated.
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