A Union Officer in the Reconstruction

Type

Book

Authors

John W. De Forest

ISBN 10

0807121835

ISBN 13

9780807121832

Tags

Primary Source, Union Soldier, Reconstruction, African American History, Autobiography, Memoir, South Carolina

Description

Beginning in 1866, John William De Forest served fifteen months as as agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, South Carolina. After leaving the army, he wrote a series of magazine articles giving a full and realistic account of the bureau's operation as it intersected with the daily lives of freedmen. In 1948 the articles were compiled and reprinted here for the first time. It offers a deft analysis of the structure of postwar southern society and gives a firsthand description of the impact of emancipation, defeat, military rule, and social and economic disorganization. - from Amzon

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