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South Carolina fire-eater : the life of Laurence Massillon Keitt, 1824-1864 / Holt Merchant.
Van Pelt Library E415.9.K27 M47 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merchant, Holt, 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864.
- Keitt, Lawrence M.
- United States. Congress. House.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Secession.
- United States.
- South Carolina.
- United States. Congress. House--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.
- Politics and government.
- Secession--South Carolina.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- History.
- Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Generals.
- Orangeburg County (S.C.)--Biography.
- Orangeburg County (S.C.).
- Political science.
- South Carolina--Orangeburg County.
- United States--Confederate States of America.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- "See that you rear a new union"
- "Trample upon your hosannas to the union"
- "He who dallies is a dastard"
- "Shake the federal temple from turret to foundation stone"
- "Like mildew and blast, like pestilence and famine"
- "Lance couched, helmet on, visor down"
- "Take the fetters from your heart"
- "Style, beauty, and high training"
- "Fidelity to the union is treason to the south"
- "True liberty is won by the blood of the brave"
- "Proudly the southern cross still floats to the breeze"
- Epilogue: "I will not lose my land".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611173499
- 1611173493
- OCLC:
- 862149127
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