On July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth
Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on
Fort Wagner, a key bastion guarding Charleston harbor. Confederate
defenders killed, wounded, or made prisoners of half the regiment.
Only hours later, the body of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the
regiment's white commander, was thrown into a mass grave with those
of twenty of his men. The assault promoted the young colonel to the
higher rank of martyr, ranking him alongside the legendary John
Brown in the eyes of abolitionists.
In this biography of Shaw, Russell Duncan presents a poignant
portrait of an average young soldier, just past the cusp of manhood
and still struggling against his mother's indomitable will, thrust
unexpectedly into the national limelight. Using information gleaned
from Shaw's letters home before and during the war, Duncan tells
the story of the rebellious son of wealthy Boston abolitionists who
never fully reconciled his own racial prejudices yet went on to
head the North's vanguard black regiment and give his life to the
cause of freedom. This thorough biography looks at Shaw from
historical and psychological viewpoints and examines the complex
family relationships that so strongly influenced him.
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