Two Charlestonians at War
The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist
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This book examines the motives of "Captain Thomas Pinckney and Sergeant Joseph Humphries Barquet ... for joining the [Civil War], as well as the experiences that shaped their worldviews. Pinckney, a rice planter and scion of one of America's founding families, joined the Confederacy in hope of reclaiming an idealized agrarian past; and Barquet, a free man of color and brick mason, fought with the Union to claim his rights as an American citizen. Their circumstances set the two men on seemingly divergent paths that nonetheless crossed on the embattled coast of South Carolina"--Amazon.com.
