A Union officer in the Reconstruction.

Description:

Beginning in 1866, John William De Forest served fifteen months as an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, South Carolina. After he left the army, he wrote a series of magazine articles about the bureau's operation as it intersected with the daily lives of freedmen. In 1948 the articles were compiled in A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, which offers a deft analysis of the structure of southern society after the war. - Publisher.

subjects: Freedmen,  History,  Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877),  Social classes,  Social conditions,  Social life and customs,  United States,  United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,  Reconstruction,  South carolina, social conditions,  De forest, john william, 1826-1906,  United states, bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands,  Freedmen, united states,  Social classes, united states,  Freed persons, united states,  Freed persons

People: John William De Forest (1826-1906),  John William De Forest

Places: Greenville Region,  Greenville Region (S.C.),  South Carolina

Times: 19th century