The Allstons of Chicora Wood wealth, honor, and gentility in the South Carolina lowcountry /
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2011.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The early years : West Point and return to Carolina
- Politics and marriage, 1828-1840
- Constructing a plantation empire
- Church and school : Robert Allston's religious and educational contributions
- Politics and family : Senate president, the Nashville Convention, and Ben at West Point, 1840-1855
- Governor and the approach of Armageddon, 1856-1861
- War and defeat : the deaths of James L. Petigru and Robert F.W. Allston, 1861-1865
- Postbellum travails : Adele's school, return to Chicora Wood, Bessie as woman rice planter
- Appendix A. The Allston and Petigru families
- Appendix B. The Allston plantations
- Appendix C. The public career of Robert F.W. Allston.