A01=Stuart A. P. Murray
Author_Stuart A. P. Murray
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Product details
- ISBN 9781581570113
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 155 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2004
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Stuart Murray draws upon Berkshire County, Massachusetts diaries, letters, newspapers, military reports, church journals, and gravestones to tell the stories of the black Union soldiers drawn from New England factories and farms, and comprising the 54th Regiment. Here the reader will encounter Medal of Honor winners, Confederate generals, women volunteers, prisoners of war, leading abolitionists, pacifists, shopkeepers, poets, writers, artists, politicians, and a host of others, all contributing to a vivid portraits of the horrors and glories of the Civil War.
Stuart A. P. Murray has been an author and editor for almost thirty years, specializing in American history. The author of thirty-four books, including the award-winning America’s Song: The Story of “Yankee Doodle,” and books on the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Vietnam War. He lives in Petersburgh, NY.
