South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras

Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Michael Brem Bonner, Fritz Hamer, Michael Brem Bonner, Fritz Hamer

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781611176643
• eBook ISBN:
  9781611176667
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

An anthology of important scholarship on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras from the journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association.
Since 1931, the South Carolina Historical Association has published an annual, peer-reviewed journal of historical scholarship. In this volume, past SCHA officers of Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer present twenty-three of the most enduring and significant essays from the archives, offering a treasure trove of scholarship on an impressive variety of subjects including race, politics, military events, and social issues.
All articles published in the Proceedings after 2002 are available on the SCHA website, but this volume offers, for the first time, easy access to the journal's best articles on the Civil War and Reconstruction up through 2001. Preeminent scholars such as Frank Vandiver, Dan T. Carter, and Orville Vernon Burton are among the contributors to this collection, an essential resource for historical synthesis of the Palmetto State's experience during that era.

INDEX

Abbott, Martin, 6; “The Freedmen’s Bureau and Its Carolina Critics,” 152–60

abolitionism, 14, 54

Advertiser (Edgefield, S.C.), 161, 162, 164, 167

Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.), 48

Adviser (Mobile, Ala.), 43

African Americans: allied with Democrats, 247; Black Codes, 149, 198, 243; Boyce’s attitudes toward, 59; on Charleston police force, 177–79; death rates of, 174; education of, 155–56, 184–92; and equality, 175, 191, 192, 227–28, 250; in Hampton’s campaign, 246; Hampton’s policies towards, 269; Hampton’s views of, 244, 249, 253n25; image of Lincoln among, 22–23; and Insurrection Panic of 1865, 146; and Johnson, 224; and Lincoln, 19, 25; loyalty to Republican Party, 247; in militia, 166; movement away from plantations, 145; political leaders, 1, 6, 161–69, 176–77, 233, 245; political organization of, 165; predictions of extinction of, 147; and representation, 215; soldiers, 162–63, 165, 166–67, 168; testimony by, 214; theological perspective, 15; as Unionists, 18; views of, 142–43; visibility of, 145; whites’ support of rights of, 19; women, images of, 269–70. See also freedmen; slavery; slaves; vote, African American

The Age of Hate (Milton), 224

“The Age of Lincoln: Then and Now” (Burton), 11–26

Agnew, Samuel, 144

Aiken, S.C., 269

Alabama, Hayne in, 37

alcohol, 38–39

America, meaning of, 16

American Bible Society, 46

American Emigrant Company (AEC), 148

American Missionary Association, 187

American Tract Society, 46

The America Play (Parks), 21–22

amnesty, oath of, 212

Amy Oakley (Meynardie), 270

Anderson, Robert, 30, 31

J. R. Anderson and Company, 99

Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (McKitrick), 226–27

“Andrew Johnson: The Second ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editors’ Note
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Politics of Secession and Civil War
• On the Battlefront
• On the Home Front
• Emancipation, Race, and Society
• The Politics of Reconstruction
• Contributors
• Index