Background
Burchard, Peter Duncan was born on March 1, 1921 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Russell Duncan and Ethel M. (Brokaw) Burchard.
(This wonderful book: One Gallant Rush: Robert Shaw and Hi...)
This wonderful book: One Gallant Rush: Robert Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment is an interesting read. This in a side of Civil War history not often told. A true historical saga dramatized in the major motion picture.
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(Traces the history of the Union's first Black regiment an...)
Traces the history of the Union's first Black regiment and discusses their influence on the war.
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(Captured by slave traders, a young Ibo girl, her brother ...)
Captured by slave traders, a young Ibo girl, her brother and their fellow villagers suffer hardships and cruel treatment on their way to the New World where they are sold as slaves.
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illustrator Photographer writer
Burchard, Peter Duncan was born on March 1, 1921 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Russell Duncan and Ethel M. (Brokaw) Burchard.
Diploma, Avon Old Farms, 1940, Philadelphia College Art, 1947. Book illustrator, since 1947. Writer, New York City, since 1958.
Photographer, New York City, since 1974.
Advisory panel George Polk awards, since 1984.
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. Burchard served on convoys in the North Atlantic during During this time, his drawings were published by Yank magazine.
(Why did Abraham Lincoln approve of compromises over slave...)
(Captured by slave traders, a young Ibo girl, her brother ...)
(A sixteen-year-old boy guides a flotilla of American whal...)
(Presents a firsthand account of a voyage aboard an oceang...)
(This wonderful book: One Gallant Rush: Robert Shaw and Hi...)
(Traces the history of the Union's first Black regiment an...)
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Member of Authors Guild, Wadawanuck Yacht, International Poets, Essayists, and Novelists Club.
Married Elizabeth R. Chamberlain, March 23, 1946 (divorced). Children: Elizabeth, Peter Junior. Married Lucy Brooke Edwards, May 12, 1967 (divorced).
Married Lynn Marie Haney, August 14, 1974 (divorced). 1 child Laura.