Resolute Rebel - Bennett, Chet
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Roswell S. Ripley was a man of considerable contradictions exemplified by his distinguished antebellum service in the US Army, followed by a controversial career as a Confederate general. After the war he was active as an entrepreneur in Britain. Chet Bennett contends that these contradictions drew negative appraisals of Ripley from historiographers, and strives to paint a more balanced picture of the man.

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Roswell S. Ripley was a man of considerable contradictions exemplified by his distinguished antebellum service in the US Army, followed by a controversial career as a Confederate general. After the war he was active as an entrepreneur in Britain. Chet Bennett contends that these contradictions drew negative appraisals of Ripley from historiographers, and strives to paint a more balanced picture of the man.
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Chet Bennett graduated from Ohio State University College of Medicine and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1969. He is a member of the South Carolina Historical Society, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, and the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. His maternal great-grandfather Pvt. G. L. Davis served with the Confederate Army Company A, 1st Regiment, South Carolina Artillery, under the command of Gen. Ripley. Bennett's paternal great-great uncles, David and Daniel Bennett, served with the Union Army 62nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry on Folly and Morris Islands.