Bill Arp's Peace Papers: Columns on War and Reconstruction, 1861-1873

by Charles H. Smith and Charles Henry Smith

Book Overview

A compendium of Southern witticisms by the Confederacy's most famous humorist

First published in 1873, Bill Arp's Peace Papers, by Charles Henry Smith (1826-1903), is a collection of writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction by the Confederacy's most famous humorist. Smith, a lawyer in Rome, Georgia, took the penname "Bill Arp" in April 1861, following the firing on Fort Sumter, when he wrote a satiric response to Abraham...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157003835X
• ISBN13: 9781570038358
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"