The Civil War in the South Carolina Lowcountry: How a Confederate Artillery Battery and a Black Union Regiment Defined the War

by Ron Roth

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476638362
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	01/17/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	197
File size:	12 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Retired museum director Ron Roth curated an exhibition on the history of the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery for the Historic Beaufort Foundation in Beaufort, South Carolina. He was a featured speaker on the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery at the 2017 Annual Civil War Symposium of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and was a seasonal historian and licensed guide for the Gettysburg National Military Park.
Retired museum director Ron Roth curated an exhibition on the history of the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery for the Historic Beaufort Foundation in Beaufort, South Carolina. He was a featured speaker on the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery at the 2017 Annual Civil War Symposium of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and was a seasonal historian and licensed guide for the Gettysburg National Military Park.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue: “It was a jolly time and we were young”
One. “The finest product of Southern civilization”
Two. “What do I think ob slavery? Murdering of de people”
Three. “He die but he die for doin’ de right”
Four. “We can make one long, last, desperate struggle, for our rights and honor”
Five. “The dissolution of the Union is the next step in the path of our glory”
Six. “A grand show of war”
Seven. “The Mosby of the Islands”
Eight. “The bullets were like hail”
Nine. “Ours is the gentlemanly company”
Ten. A Glimpse of Total War: The Burning of Bluffton
Eleven. “Freedom is sweeter than life”
Twelve. “Never have I seen such terrible havoc”
Thirteen. “It is now a question of very few days”
Epilogue: “Everything was going to confusion and ruin”
Appendix I: Rosters
Appendix II: Two Addresses
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Well illustrated, and the battle maps depicting the BVA’s position in each major action exhibit fine detail…worthy of recommendation as a useful contribution to the study of nineteenth-century Beaufort District society and Civil War history”—Civil War Books and Authors

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