Best of
American-Civil-War

1973

Lay This Laurel: An Album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial on Boston Common Honoring Black and White Men Together Who Served the Union Cause with Robert Gould Shaw and Died with Him July 18, 1863


Richard Benson - 1973
    Their heroic but futile battle at Fort Wagner was memorialized by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common in 1897. Both the commemorative book and limited-edition volume depict the monument in stirring detail while celebrating its 100-year anniversary. For photography connoisseurs and Civil War buffs. First Edition, 1973

Civil War Times Illustrated Volume XI


William C. Davis - 1973
    The annual special issue (May 1972) was dedicated entirely to the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign and was written by James I. Robertson.