Author peter burchard biography

Peter Burchard was an author, free-lance designer, and illustrator.
Peter Burchard (March 1, 1921 – July 3, 2004) was an author, free-lance designer, and illustrator.
Peter Burchard (1921–2004) was the author of over twenty fiction and nonfiction books for young readers and adults, including One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould.

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About the Author

Peter Burchard is the author of more than twenty-five books -- both fiction and nonfiction -- for young readers and adults. The last of these is Lincoln and Slavery, published in 1999. He is the author of One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment, a major historical source show more for the motion picture Glory, which won three Academy Awards. Two of his books were ALA Notable Booksshow less

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"The work was nearly finished now, but tunneling was only the first step. There were armed guards in and around the jail, all dreading a prison break. And a complex of earthworks surrounded Richmond. But anything was better than this. . . ."
Jim Cutter was one of the diggers, one of twenty men who knew about the tunnel. Rat Hell is the story of his escape, against heavy odds, from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. It is fiction based on fact, set against somber reality: for the people of show more the South, priva

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Peter Burchard

American writer

Peter Burchard (March 1, 1921 – July 3, 2004)^[1] was an author, free-lance designer, and illustrator. He wrote the book One Gallant Rush (1965), about Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first African-American unit in the Union Army. It was adapted for the 1989 film Glory, which won numerous awards.^[1]

World War II

Burchard served on convoys in the North Atlantic during World War II. During this time, his drawings were published by Yank magazine.^[1]

Books

Burchard primarily wrote children's books about slavery, abolitionism, and the American Civil War. He wrote 26 books and illustrated over 100.^[1]

His book One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment, was the basis for the Oscar-winning 1989 film Glory.

His works include:

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One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment (1965/reprint 1990)

Juvenile

Balloons: From Paper Bags to Skyhooks
Jed
North by Night
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Frederick Douglass
Nantucket

On Tuesday, August 10, 1841, Frederick Douglass, three years a fugitive from slavery, paced the top deck of the ferry that was taking him from New Bedford to the island of Nantucket.

At twenty-three, he stood above the six-foot mark and, having labored in shipyards in Maryland and Massachusetts, was both broad and muscular. His skin was golden brown. His wide forehead and prominent cheekbones framed dark and penetrating eyes, a broad nose, and a generous mouth. His hands were tough and leathery.

With Douglass on the little steamer was a large and sometimes boisterous crowd of passengers, most of them white, some of them black. All but a few were abolitionists -- men and women speaking out against the cruelties of slavery in the South and prejudice and racial violence in the North. Most were firm believers in nonviolence. Earlier that morning, in a strong but peaceful demonstration in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the white majority had gained for their black friends the right to travel with them on the upper deck and in the cabin of the steamer.

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