| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Hope & Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Ed. by Martin H. Blatt, Thomas J. Brown, and Donald Yacovone. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. xxiv, 336 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-55849-277-1.)

These fifteen original essays offer a wide-ranging festschrift to the North's most famous African American regiment and to the public sculpture dedicated in Boston in 1897, the one that Robert Lowell said "sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat." The anthology originated in the 1997 centennial recommemoration of Augustus Saint-Gaudens's monument to Col. Robert Gould Shaw. 1

James Oliver Horton reviews the issues of black manhood at the marrow of the war, and Edwin S. Redkey profiles the 1,357 men who formed a regiment unique in many ways, including the rarity of having soldiers from twenty-four states. Donald Yacovone cogently argues that the crisis over equal pay and equal recognition as fighting men turned into a racial issue between the officers and soldiers, which brought disorder to the regiment before the Lincoln administration finally agreed to equalize wages. Joan Waugh convincingly shows how public responsibility and "the very concept of sacrifice" penetrated the lives of the Shaw family, even at the cost of their son's martyrdom—a viable interpretation at odds with revisionist writings. . . .

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