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Author:
Merchant, Holt, 1939- author.
Title:
South Carolina fire-eater : the life of Laurence Massillon Keitt, 1824-1864 / Holt Merchant.
Publisher:
University of South Carolina Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
viii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Keitt, Lawrence M.--(Lawrence Massillon),--1824-1864.
United States.--House--House--Biography.
Keitt, Lawrence M.--(Lawrence Massillon),--1824-1864.
United States.--House.--House.
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Legislators--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.
Secession--South Carolina.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
Orangeburg County (S.C.)--Biography.
Generals.
Legislators.
Political science.
Secession.
South Carolina.
South Carolina--Orangeburg County.
United States.
United States--Confederate States of America.
1849 - 1865
Biography.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"See that you rear a new union" -- "Trample upon your hosannas to the union" -- "He who dallies is a dastard" -- "Shake the federal temple from turret to foundation stone" -- "Like mildew and blast, like pestilence and famine" -- "Lance couched, helmet on, visor down" -- "Take the fetters from your heart" -- "Style, beauty, and high training" -- "Fidelity to the union is treason to the south" -- "True liberty is won by the blood of the brave" -- "Proudly the southern cross still floats to the breeze" -- Epilogue: "I will not lose my land".
ISBN:
1611173493 (hardbound : alk. paper)
9781611173499 (hardbound : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)862149127
LCCN:
2013041101
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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