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Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant

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This is a biography of John Emory Bryant, a veteran of the Civil War who became a Carpetbagger in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. A member of the Eighth Maine Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, Bryant fought at the Battle of the Crater. After his service in the war, he returned to Maine to study law. But, before he finished his degree, he was contacted by his former commander and friend, General Rufus Saxton, to join him in "new work . . . among former slaves in the South" with the Freedmen's Bureau, an ...

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Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant 1999, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823219384

Revised edition

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Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant 1999, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823219377

Revised edition

Hardcover