Violet Storm: A Novel of South Carolina During Reconstruction

Violet Storm was beautiful. She also was strong and intelligent. She stood firm and defiant against Yankee soldiers who overran her South Carolina Plantation, against Scalawags who stole her cotton and tried to take her land, and against suitors who wanted to steal her person during the long absence of her husband, Brent Sutler, in the Confederate Navy.Many volumes have been written about the Civil War; not so many about the Reconstruction-the twelve years of Yankee military occupation and Scalawag-Carpetbagger government that followed. For many Southerners the Reconstruction was a worse ordeal than the War itself. It was worse in South Carolina than in other states, perhaps because South Carolina was the first to secede and the first to fire a shot-at Fort Sumter-in the Civil War.This is the story of a woman who was determined to hold her family together and to bring back a measure of prosperity during those trying times.How did people cope with the Reconstruction? Some, like Brent's brother, went to the Far West or Mexico to get a new start. Some, like Violet's sisters and some of the neighbors, moved to the city. Some, like the neighbors across the way, resisted change. Some resorted to active resistance in vigilante groups. Some, like Violet's grandmother, lived in their memories and hoped for the best. Some, like the slaves who never returned, drifted to cities and became pawns of their alien masters. Some collaborated with the enemy and became Scalawags.But Violet and Brent were determined to hold to the best of the agrarian Old South and also to adapt to new conditions. They combined their efforts in maintaining a plantation with free labor and new machinery, running a mercantile business and a railroad, and participating in state politics. And still they found time to found a school for promising but impoverished children, black and white.Violet always insisted that Southern civilization had not been swept away by the Yankee conquest any more than the Atheni

Literature & Fiction

Huston, Anne Marshall

Huston, James A.

Contemporary

1st Book Library

After the Civil War, Violet and her husband, upon his return from the Confederate Navy, become partners in restoring their South Carolina plantation and in ventures in mercantile trade and railroads during years of Yankee occupation and Carpetbag-Scalawag government.

A Historian's Handbook is for anyone who is interested in reading and discussing ideas in history. It is intended primarily for young teachers of history and for students who are preparing to teach history, at all levels. It comprises suggestions for thinking about history and for teaching it, and two appendices of historical documents. In the first are the texts of 'Sixteen Most Important Documents in American History,' while the second gives a sampling of texts, excerpts, and summaries of important documents in world history.

A Historian's Handbook

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

AuthorHouse

In A Hoosier Sampler, James A. Huston provides a thorough compilation of the works of some of Indiana's most notable writers. Huston brings to the foreground such world renowned authors as Lew Wallace, Lloyd C. Douglas, Charles Major, Kurt Vonnegut, and James Whitcomb Riley among others, to produce a comprehensive volume of great works that provides the true flavor of each author's style as well as interesting, enjoyable, and instructive reading. Covering nearly every accomplished Indiana writer, this anthology will be of great use to students and professors of literature as well as the general reader.

A Hoosier Sampler: An Anthology of Indiana Writers

United States

University Press of America

During World War II, James A. Huston served as an operations officer in the 3rd Battalion, 134th Infantry, a unit that helped to liberate or capture dozens of cities across France, Belgium, and Germany. From July 1944 through April 1945, the regiment captured 8,974 prisoners of war and covered more than 1,500 combat miles, but lost 10,046 men in the process. "Biography of a Battalion" recreates the action and provides an account of the war from one soldier who lived through it.

Biography of a Battalion

Military

Stackpole Books

One for All offers a detailed analysis of the historical antecedents of the North Atlantic Alliance, focusing on the logistical infrastructure on which the success of its strategies depend, and describing the technological and political problems that threaten its military effectiveness by threatening its logistical underpinnings.

One for All: NATO Strategy and Logistics Through the Formative Period, (1949-1969)

UNKNO

Beginning with a case study of the greatest airborne operation of the war, the 1944 invasion of Holland, Huston examines the inception, organization, training, equipment, strategies, Allied cooperation, and overall effectiveness of the airborne in the total war effort. Operations in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Southern France, the Pacific, and the Far East are discussed.

Out of the Blue: U.S. Army Airborne Operations in World War II

Battery Pr

Out of the blue;: U.S. Army airborne operations in World War II,

Purdue University Studies

Outposts and Allies: U.S. Army Logistics in the Cold War, 1945-1953

Susquehanna Univ Pr

Description from the book flap: Sandwiched between WWII and the conflict in Vietnam, the Korean War has become in many ways a "forgotten" war; yet other events have not diminished the impact of that conflict on the recent history of the US. James A. Huston illustrates the experience of the US Army's logistic support in Korea during the war of 1951 to 1953, and shows that it continues to be relevant and instructive to current future plans and concepts.

Guns and Butter, Powder and Rice: U.S. Army Logistics in the Korean War

Americas

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Violet Storm: A Novel of South Carolina During Reconstruction

Violet Storm: A Novel of South Carolina During Reconstruction

A Historian's Handbook

A Hoosier Sampler: An Anthology of Indiana Writers

Biography of a Battalion

One for All: NATO Strategy and Logistics Through the Formative Period, (1949-1969)

Out of the Blue: U.S. Army Airborne Operations in World War II

Out of the blue;: U.S. Army airborne operations in World War II,

Outposts and Allies: U.S. Army Logistics in the Cold War, 1945-1953

Guns and Butter, Powder and Rice: U.S. Army Logistics in the Korean War