A South Carolina Upcountry Saga (eBook)

The Civil War Letters of Barham Bobo Foster and His Family, 1860–1863

A. Gibert Kennedy (Herausgeber)

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2019
384 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-64336-022-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Collected letters of a Confederate officer and his family detail daily life and loss on the battlefield

Hope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no small measure. Drawing from dozens of public and privately owned letters, A. Gibert Kennedy recounts the story of his great-great-grandfather and his family in A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters of Barham Bobo Foster and His Family, 1860-1863.

Barham Bobo Foster was a gentleman planter from the Piedmont who signed the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession and served as a lieutenant colonel in the Third South Carolina Volunteers alongside his two sons. Kennedy's primary sources are letters written by Foster and his sons, but he also references correspondence involving Foster's daughters and his wife, Mary Ann.

The letters describe experiences on the battlefields of Virginia and South Carolina, vividly detailing camp life, movements, and battles along with stories of bravery, loss, and sacrifice. The Civil War cost Foster his health, all that he owned, and his two sons, though he was able to rebuild with the help of his wife and three daughters. Supplementing the correspondence with maps, illustrations, and genealogical information, Kennedy shows the full arc of the Foster family's struggle and endurance in the Civil War era.

Autor

A. Gibert Kennedy earned a B.A. in history from East Carolina University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee. He retired from a career in nuclear engineering in 2015. Kennedy has a bookselling business that specializes in South Carolina and Civil War history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.1.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b&w halftones, 11 maps
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1860 • 3rd South Carolina Regiment • Ambrose Burnside • Ashley River (South Carolina) • Battlefield • battle of antietam • Battle of Appomattox Court House • Battle of Ball's Bluff • Battle of Gaines's Mill • Battle of Mill Springs • battle of spotsylvania court house • Battle of Williamsburg • camp life • Civil War • Confederate • Cooper River (South Carolina) • Foster • Francis Wilkinson Pickens • furlough • Genealogical • George B. McClellan • Letters • Piedmont • Secession • Siege of Yorktown • South Carolina • South Carolina Railroad • southern • southern baptist convention • States Rights Gist • upcountry • William Dorsey Pender
• ISBN-10: 1-64336-022-1 / 1643360221
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64336-022-5 / 9781643360225