Three Martyrs to the Union/Abolitionist Cause
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I am currently working away at writing the Introduction for my biography of Robert Gould Shaw. I’ve been playing around with the idea that there were three martyrs to the Union/abolitionist cause between 1861 and 1865, each of them occupying a unique place along the timeline.
The first is Col Elmer Ellsworth, who was ki…
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