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The Civil War in the South Carolina Lowcountry, how a Confederate artillery battery and a Black Union regiment defined the war, Ron Roth

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The Civil War in the South Carolina Lowcountry

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Ron Roth

how a Confederate artillery battery and a Black Union regiment defined the war

"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 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."--Page [4] of cover

Prologue: "It was a jolly time and we were young" -- "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: the burning of Bluffton -- "Freedom is sweeter than life" -- "Never have I seen such terrible havoc" -- "It is now a question of very few days" -- Epilogue: "Everything is going to confusion and ruin" -- Appendix I: rosters -- Appendix II: two addresses

Civil War in the South Carolina low country