Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment—one of the first regiments of Black soldiers in the Civil War—in its famous ill-fated charge against Confederate Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863. Shaw’s sacrifice has been commemorated in monuments, books, and the award-winning film Glory. But before he became a martyr for the Union cause and emancipation, Shaw was a privileged young man who showed little interest in the reform movements that defined his parents' lives or in the moral crisis over slavery that was tearing the nation apart. Volunteering to serve as a duty, he awakened gradually and fitfully to the demands of conscience and command. Only in death was Shaw transformed into the champion for freedom his abolitionist parents hoped he would be.
The first biography of Shaw in a quarter century, A Glorious Fate traces his transformation from a rebellious son into one of the Civil War’s most celebrated heroes. Acclaimed historian Kevin M. Levin also reveals the sacrifice and service of the African American men who fought and died for their freedom afresh through Shaw’s eyes. Though Shaw never fully reconciled his own racial prejudices, Levin shows how the Civil War changed the young colonel as it did the nation.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One There Is No Use Doing Disagreeable Things for Nothing
- Two I Can’t Help Hoping That There Will Be a Disunion Some Time
- Three Goodbye, the Drum Is Beating
- Four We Shall Have Much More Soldiering to Do Than We Expected When We Started
- Five What War Really Is
- Six It Was the Greatest Fight of the War
- Seven I Feel Convinced I Shall Never Regret Having Taken This Step
- Eight They Feel as Big as All Creation—and Look Very Well
- Nine I Do Not Like to Degenerate into a Plunderer and Robber
- Ten My Men Are Capable of Better Service than Mere Guerilla Warfare
- Eleven I Do Not Believe I Shall Live Through Our Next Fight
- Twelve Our Hero Has Received at the Hands of the Rebels the Most Fitting Burial Possible
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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