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- catalog abstract ""A Fire-Eater Remembers affords a look at the secession crisis and the formation of the Confederacy as seen through the eyes of the man some called the Father of Secession. Never before published, Robert Barnwell Rhett's personal account of the years 1859 through 1865 is the fullest memoir to have survived from any member of South Carolina's Secession Convention and the Confederate Provisional Congress. Like Rhett himself, the writings are opinionated, contentious, arrogant, and unforgiving. They reveal much of Rhett's inside view of the effort to separate from the Union, and they depict his participation in the founding of the Confederacy." "Presented as Rhett composed it, the volume includes the southerner's thoughts on the nature of free government, his advocacy of free trade, and his gloomy forecast for the future of the Union after war and Reconstruction. Although no portion of this memoir has been published before, it served as a model for such famous Confederates as P.G.T. Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston, who read parts of it while writing their own personal accounts of the war."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11751353.
- catalog contributor b11751354.
- catalog coverage "Confederate States of America Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "South Carolina Politics and government 1775-1865.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""A Fire-Eater Remembers affords a look at the secession crisis and the formation of the Confederacy as seen through the eyes of the man some called the Father of Secession. Never before published, Robert Barnwell Rhett's personal account of the years 1859 through 1865 is the fullest memoir to have survived from any member of South Carolina's Secession Convention and the Confederate Provisional Congress. Like Rhett himself, the writings are opinionated, contentious, arrogant, and unforgiving. They reveal much of Rhett's inside view of the effort to separate from the Union, and they depict his participation in the founding of the Confederacy."".
- catalog description ""Presented as Rhett composed it, the volume includes the southerner's thoughts on the nature of free government, his advocacy of free trade, and his gloomy forecast for the future of the Union after war and Reconstruction. Although no portion of this memoir has been published before, it served as a model for such famous Confederates as P.G.T. Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston, who read parts of it while writing their own personal accounts of the war."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Dissolution -- Founding father -- Disillusionment -- Battling a dictator -- Cotton -- Aftermath -- Appendix to life and services.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-148) and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 152 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "157003348X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog spatial "Confederate States of America Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Confederate States of America".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina Politics and government 1775-1865.".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.7/13/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "F273 .R48 2000".
- catalog subject "Legislators South Carolina Biography.".
- catalog subject "Legislators United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876.".
- catalog subject "Secession South Carolina.".
- catalog subject "Statesmen Confederate States of America Biography.".
- catalog subject "United States. Congress. Senate Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dissolution -- Founding father -- Disillusionment -- Battling a dictator -- Cotton -- Aftermath -- Appendix to life and services.".
- catalog title "A fire-eater remembers : the Confederate memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett / edited by William C. Davis.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".