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Two Charlestonians at war : the Civil War odysseys of a Lowcountry aristocrat and a black abolitionist /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bellows, Barbara L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Pinckney, Thomas, > 1828-1915.
Barquet, Joseph H.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Biography.
United States. > Army. > Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865) > Biography.
Charleston (S.C.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
Charleston (S.C.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The two roads to Coffin Island
  • Joseph's story: sunshine and shadow 1
  • Thomas's story: in the shadow of greatness
  • "What have we done. . . ?"
  • General Pinckney's sword
  • Against wind and tide
  • Death and rebirth in the dragon's den
  • The Fifty-Fourth and the six hundred
  • From liberator to conqueror
  • We have lost our country
  • Citizen Barquet
  • The price of peace
  • Epilogue: lest we forget.