When South Carolina Was an Armed Camp: The Reconstruction Essays of Belton O'Neall Townsend

This book is a unique and exceptionally revealing window into South Carolina's troubled Reconstruction history. Edited with a poignant introduction by John Hammond Moore, this volume introduces an unconventional view of Reconstruction from a brilliant and unconventional young South Carolinian. A frustrated poet, Belton O'Neall Townsend found fame as a trenchant and brutally honest commentator on Reconstruction South Carolina's politics, society, and morals. - Lawrence S. Rowland, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina-Beaufort