Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant

Currie-McDaniel, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0820308560 / ISBN 13: 9780820308562

Published by The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA and London, 1987

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1987. 1st Printing. Near Fine - Fine hardback book. Near Fine dust jacket. Square, tight and clean in a very lightly rubbed jacket. 238pp. Sm 4to. (V).

Seller Inventory # 020135

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA and London
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820308560
• ISBN 13: 9780820308562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine - Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

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Synopsis

Currie-McDaniel, Ruth

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This is a biography of John Emory Bryant, a veteran of the Civil War who became a Carpetbagger in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. A member of the Eighth Maine Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, Bryant fought at the Battle of the Crater. After his service in the war, he returned to Maine to study law; however, before he finished his degree, he was contacted by his former commander and friend, General Rufus Saxton, to join him in "new work . . . among former slaves in the South" with the Freedmen's Bureau, an organization designed to protect and assist the newly freed slaves.