A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals

New Englander William Allen (1830-1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals, and as a distinguished history professor at the University of Wisconsin. During the Civil War, he served from late 1863 through mid-1864 as a member of the "Gideonite band" of businessmen, missionaries, and teachers who migrated to the South Carolina...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611174961
• ISBN13: 9781611174960
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"