Bitter Freedom: William Stone's Record of Service in the Freedmen's Bureau

by Suzanne Stone Johnson

Bitter Freedom is an insightful evaluation of the pivotal role of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction in war-torn South Carolina as written by a young bureau agent eager to do his part in rebuilding a divided nation. In early 1866 Major William Stone of the 19th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers, having survived four major Civil War battles and three combat wounds, arrived in South Carolina to assume his duties in the newly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570037663
• ISBN13: 9781570037665
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"