Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist: Letters 1860-1900

by Emma Frances Spauldi Bryant and Ruth Douglas Currie

Book Overview

Emma Spaulding's life might have been the simple story of a nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine. Instead, wooed by the ambitious John Emory Bryant, the Yankee Reconstruction activist and Georgia politician, she became the Civil War bride of a Republican carpetbagger intent on reforming the South.

The grueling years in the shadow of her husband's controversial political career gave her a backbone of steel and the convictions of an early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082322273X
• ISBN13: 9780823222735
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"