A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction

by William Warren Rogers Jr.

Richard Henry Whiteley participated firsthand in the epic events of nineteenth-century America. He came to the United States as a boy in the 1830s, working first in Georgia's textile mills, where the Irish immigrant climbed the ladder to become management. From there, he went on to become a lawyer, an officer in the Civil War, a convert to Southern Republicanism, and finally a U.S. congressman from 1869 to 1876.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252031601
• ISBN13: 9780252031601
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"