Автор:Robert Gould Shaw
Название: Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Издательство:University of Georgia Press
Год: 1999
Кол-во страниц: 480
Формат: Pdf
Размер: 25 MB
Язык: Английский

On the Boston Common stands one of the great Civil War memorials, a magnificent bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It depicts the black soldiers of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry marching alongside their young white commander, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. When the philosopher William James dedicated the memorial in May 1897, he stirred the assembled crowd with these words: "There they march, warm-blooded champions of a better day for man. There on horseback among them, in the very habit as he lived, sits the blue-eyed child of fortune."