Tag: South

• Books I’ve Known And Loved

  If you imagine, based on your high school American history class, that reconstruction was a bore-fest, think again. John William De Forest brings the reader on a trip to Greenville, South Carolina and introduces us to the colorful characters (black and white) he dealt with as an agent of the Freedman’s Bureau. There’s no whitewashing,…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 2, 2014

  Books I’ve Known and Loved, History, The Unknowable Past, inspirational, Men, Writing

  19th Century History, Books, John William De Forest, memoir, North and South, Soldiers, South, Union Officer Reconstruction, Union Soldiers, Writers, Writing