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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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"My Old Carpetbagger": How a Yankee Saved the Capital from Rebel Invaders, Led Virginia Republicans during Reconstruction and Fought Government Fraud

"My Old Carpetbagger": How a Yankee Saved the Capital from Rebel Invaders, Led Virginia Republicans during Reconstruction and Fought Government Fraud

Chamberlin, Taylor

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 1942695411
ISBN13: 9781942695417
Publisher: George Mason University Library - Mason Pub
Published: May 3 2024
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

During the Civil War, not all Southemers were secessionists. Not all Yankees who later came south were carpetbaggers bent on exploiting their former foes. This book portrays exceptions to both rules - Simon Elliot Chamberlin, a Union cavalry officer who relocated to northern Virginia, and Edith Matthews, daughter of a Quaker family in Confederate Virginia. Their separate wartime experiences would deeply influence their subsequent courtship and marriage. His military career, especially with the 25th N.Y. Cavalry and its defense of Washington in 1864, is set against the contemporaneous experiences of young Edith and her farming family, part of a pro-Unionist enclave in Loudoun County that paid a heavy price for its support of the North.

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