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Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant

Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant

Currie, Ruth

Paperback

Series: Reconstructing America

Historical FiguresPolitical Biographies19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0823219380
ISBN13: 9780823219384
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 1999
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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. But, 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.

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