Library Additions December 2021 (1)–South Carolina in 1865

Stokes, Karen. South Carolina in 1865. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2021. 143 pages, 134
pages of text. Notes, bibliography, b/w photos. ISBN 9781467151344, $21.99.

Thank you to my friends at Arcadia Publishing for providing a complimentary review copy. A
review will be posted at a later date.

From the publisher website.

The year 1865 brought an end to the war in America, but it also ended a civilization that had existed for nearly two centuries in South Carolina. Plantations, churches, farms, factories and whole villages and towns were pillaged and burned by General William T. Sherman’s army, and a once thriving and wealthy state was reduced to poverty. While Columbia burned, besieging Union troops swept in and occupied the undefended city of Charleston, which Sherman called “a mere desolated wreck,” and then launched raids into the surrounding countryside, including the rich plantation lands of Berkeley County. The surviving records of this period are numerous and revealing, and author Karen Stokes presents many of the eyewitness accounts and memoirs of those who lived through it.

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