Colonel John A. Bross: 29th U.S. Colored Troops (Abridged, Annotated)

John Armstrong Bross is forgotten today, while Robert Gould Shaw, the commander portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the film, "Glory," gained fame immediately upon his death that has endured. Both events are remarkably similar--two young Union colonels who lead African-American troops and who died very nearly one year apart.

This long-forgotten volume was published for Bross' friends and family in Chicago. But it has much wider appeal as the story of a man who was deeply committed to doing wha...