Two Charlestonians at War - Bellows, Barbara L
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This book examines the motives of "Captain Thomas Pinckney and Sergeant Joseph Humphries Barquet ... for joining the [Civil War], as well as the experiences that shaped their worldviews. Pinckney, a rice planter and scion of one of America's founding families, joined the Confederacy in hope of reclaiming an idealized agrarian past; and Barquet, a free man of color and brick mason, fought with the Union to claim his rights as an American citizen. Their circumstances set the two men on seemingly divergent paths that nonetheless crossed on the embattled coast of South Carolina"--Amazon.com.

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This book examines the motives of "Captain Thomas Pinckney and Sergeant Joseph Humphries Barquet ... for joining the [Civil War], as well as the experiences that shaped their worldviews. Pinckney, a rice planter and scion of one of America's founding families, joined the Confederacy in hope of reclaiming an idealized agrarian past; and Barquet, a free man of color and brick mason, fought with the Union to claim his rights as an American citizen. Their circumstances set the two men on seemingly divergent paths that nonetheless crossed on the embattled coast of South Carolina"--Amazon.com.
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Autorenporträt
Barbara L. Bellows, former professor of history at Middlebury College, is the author of Benevolence among Slaveholders: Caring for the Poor in Charleston, 1760-1860 and A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition.