The Civil War in the South Carolina lowcountry : how a Confederate artillery battery and a Black Union regiment defined the war
- Author/Creator:
- Roth, Ron, 1948- author
- Publication/Creation:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- The Civil War in the South Carolina lowcountry : how a Confederate artillery battery and a Black Union regiment defined the war / Ron Roth
- Variant Titles:
- How a Confederate artillery battery and a Black Union regiment defined the war
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- United States.Army.South Carolina Volunteers, 1st (1862-1864)--History
Confederate States of America.Army.Confederate States of America.Beaufort Volunteer Artillery--History
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American
South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories
Beaufort County (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- "The finest product of Southern civilization" -- "What do I think ob slavery? Murdering of de people" -- "He die but he die for doin' de right" -- "We can make one long, last, desperate struggle, for our rights and honor" -- "The dissolution of the Union is the next step in the path of our glory" -- "A grand show of war" -- "The Mosby of the Islands" -- "The bullets were like hail" -- "Ours is the gentlemanly company" -- A Glimpse of Total War -- "Freedom is sweeter than life" -- "Never have I seen such terrible havoc" -- "It is now a question of very few days.
- Summary:
- ""Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah. From fire-eater Robert Barnwell Rhett's inflammatory 1844 speech in Bluffton calling for secession, to the last desperate attempts by Confederate forces to halt Sherman's juggernaut, the region was torn apart by war. This history tells the story through the experiences of two radically different military units-the Confederate Beaufort Volunteer Artillery and the U.S. 1st South Carolina Regiment, the first black Union regiment to fight in the war-both organized in Beaufort, the heart of the Lowcountry."--
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- ix, 187 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937171110402486
- ISBN:
- 9781476677101
1476677107 - OCLC Number:
- 1108554379
- Barcode:
- 010003163176
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