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Tell It With Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial
Tell It With Pride The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus SaintGaudens' Shaw Memorial
Author: Sarah Greenough, Nancy Anderson
On July 18, 1863, six months after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the first American units composed of African Americans stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina, led by Colonel Robert Shaw Gould. Although the regiment suffered great losses, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry legitimized the idea of bl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300197730
ISBN-10: 030019773X
Publication Date: 9/28/2013
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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