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South Carolina in 1865.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stokes, Karen.
- Series:
- Civil War Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Social aspects.
- South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- South Carolina.
- South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
- South Carolina--History--1865-.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (117 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2022.
- Summary:
- The year 1865 brought an end to the war in America, but it also ended a civilization that had existed for nearly two centuries in South Carolina. Plantations, churches, farms, factories and whole villages and towns were pillaged and burned by General William T. Sherman's army, and a once thriving and wealthy state was reduced to poverty. While Columbia burned, besieging Union troops swept in and occupied the undefended city of Charleston, which Sherman called "a mere desolated wreck, " and then launched raids into the surrounding countryside, including the rich plantation lands of Berkeley County. The surviving records of this period are numerous and revealing, and author Karen Stokes presents many of the eyewitness accounts and memoirs of those who lived through it.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Letters North and South
- Josephine LeConte's Harrowing Tale
- Private Grundy's Letter
- The Middleton Ladies in Columbia
- Alfred Huger's Letter
- II. The Burning of Columbia
- Lieutenant Platter's Diary
- William B. Yates's Nightmare
- Ilium in Flames
- Mrs. Lee's Fiery Ordeal
- Edwin J. Scott's Columbia Diary
- III. 1865 In the Lowcountry
- Contemplating Desolation: Occupied Charleston
- The War in Berkeley County: Frederick A. Porcher's Account
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Stokes, Karen South Carolina in 1865
- ISBN:
- 9781439674239
- OCLC:
- 1292356516
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