A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett

by Robert Barnwell Rhett

A personal view of the secession movement and South Carolina's place in the Confederacy

A Fire-Eater Remembers affords an unprecedented look at the secession crisis and the formation of the Confederacy as seen through the eyes of the man some called the Father of Secession. Never before published, Robert Barnwell Rhett's personal account of the years 1859 through 1865 is the most complete memoir to have survived from any member...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157003348X
• ISBN13: 9781570033483
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"