Twilight on the South Carolina rice fields : letters of the Heyward family, 1862-1871 /

Heyward, Edward Barnwell, 1826-1871.

Twilight on the South Carolina rice fields : letters of the Heyward family, 1862-1871 / edited by Margaret Belser Hollis and Allen H. Stokes ; with the assistance of Shirley Bright Cook, Janet Hudson, and Nicholas G. Meriwether ; introduction by Peter A. Coclanis. - Cloth edition. - [Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xxxi, 427 pages) : illustrations, map

"Published in cooperation with the South Caroliniana Library with the assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund."

Includes bibliographies and index.

1862 -- 1863 -- 1864 -- 1865 -- 1866 -- 1867 -- 1868 -- 1869 -- 1870 -- 1871.

A firsthand account of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Old South rice kingdom from one of South Carolina's founding families.



9781611172300




Heyward, Edward Barnwell, 1826-1871 --Correspondence.
Hayward family--Correspondence.
Hayward family.


Rice farmers--South Carolina--Correspondence.
Plantation owners--South Carolina--Correspondence.
Aristocracy (Social class)--South Carolina--Correspondence.
Rice--History--South Carolina--19th century--Sources.
Plantation life--History--South Carolina--19th century--Sources.


Electronic Books.

F273 / .T855 2010