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In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to the 1999 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Maine Background -- Two. Bryant in the Civil War -- Three. Presidential Reconstruction -- Four. Congressional Reconstruction -- Five. Bryant and the Strategic Shift of Republicans in the 1870s -- Six. The Closing Decades -- Conclusion: john Emory Bryant in Retrospect -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
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 organization designed to protect and assist the newly freed slaves