Hope and Glory
Subtitle: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
Contributors: Martin Henry Blatt (Editor); Thomas J. Brown (Editor); Donald Yacovone (Editor)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781558492776
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Black studies; Civil war; Regiments; Social history; Military - United States; c 1800 to c 1900; Civil War, 1861-1865; Military History - U.S. Civil War; Social aspects; Blacks In The Military; Massachusetts; History - Military / War; History: American; Regimental histories; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - Civil War; United States; 19th century; Influence; Massachusetts Infantry Regimen; Memory; African American soldiers; Army; History
First sentence: IT WAS ON the third of April in 1857 when Charles Lenox Remond of Salem, Massachusetts, stood before a meeting of free people of color in Philadelphia to express the outrage that black people felt so intensely at that moment.