Title: A Union officer in the Reconstruction
First published: 1948
Description: Beginning in 1866, John William De Forest served fifteen months as an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, South Carolina. After he left the army, he wrote a series of magazine articles about the bureau's operation as it intersected with the daily lives of freedmen. In 1948 the articles were compiled in A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, which offers a deft analysis of the structure of southern society after the war. - Publisher.
Subjects: Freedmen, History, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Social classes, Social conditions, Social life and customs, United States, United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Reconstruction, South carolina, social conditions, De forest, john william, 1826-1906, United states, bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands, Freedmen, united states, Social classes, united states, Freed persons, united states, Freed persons
Places: Greenville Region, Greenville Region (S.C.), South Carolina
People: John William De Forest (1826-1906), John William De Forest
Time periods: 19th century