Postbellum Sapelo Island

Name: Postbellum Sapelo Island
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The Reconstruction Journal of Archibald Carlyle McKinley

By Buddy Sullivan

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Postbellum Sapelo Island by Buddy Sullivan delves into the rich history of Sapelo Island following the American Civil War. It explores the island's transition through economic and social changes, highlighting the lives of its residents and the challenges they faced in redefining their community. The narrative provides a detailed examination of the island's cultural and historical evolution during this transformative period.
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You might enjoy this book if you have a deep interest in the historical and cultural transformations that occurred in coastal Georgia post-Civil War. Its detailed exploration of local history and community resilience provides insightful perspectives on how environments and societies evolve after significant conflict.

The story of Sapelo Island, Georgia, in the half-century following the Civil War, featuring the daily journal of Archibald C. McKinley, one of the island's residents.

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The story of Sapelo Island, Georgia, is a compelling narrative that captivates many people, including serious historians, occasional visitors, and local residents. Postbellum Sapelo Island reviews one segment of Sapelo's history—in many respects its most intriguing period—spanning fifty years from 1865 to 1915. It is also a very personal story, told through the first-hand account of Archibald Carlisle McKinley, a Sapelo resident who lived on the island for most of that half-century.

McKinley's daily journal, kept from 1869 to 1877, along with subsequent accounts by him and members of his family, provides the immediacy of the moment. This personal perspective is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain through research in less personal sources.

The centrepiece of Postbellum Sapelo Island is McKinley's Reconstruction-era journal, which includes explanatory notes to identify persons, places, and events mentioned. The book also contains an introductory chapter on Reconstruction Sapelo, which is three-fold: an overview of the formerly enslaved people of Sapelo who returned after the Civil War as freed individuals, developing communities and self-reliance; a review of the Spaldings, McKinleys, and allied families who resided on the island post-war; and the story of McKinley himself, detailing how his journal was written and preserved by his descendants long after his death in 1917.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781098309688

Publisher: BookBaby

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 May 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: BookBaby

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 693g

Pages: 338

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American & Canadian History Buddy Sullivan History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Buddy Sullivan is a fourth-generation coastal Georgian. He has researched and written about the history, culture and ecology of coastal Georgia for 35 years. He is the author of 30 books and monographs and is in frequent demand as a lecturer on a variety of historical topics. He is a recipient of the Governor's Medal in the Humanities from the Georgia Humanities Council in recognition of his literary and cultural contributions to the state. Sullivan's books include Georgia: A State History (2003) for the Georgia Historical Society, and two comprehensive histories, Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater (revised and expanded 2018), for McIntosh County, and From Beautiful Zion to Red Bird Creek (2000), for Bryan County. The latter volume received the Georgia Historical Society's Hawes Award for Georgia's outstanding work of local history. In addition to the current monograph, his most recent books are A Georgia Tidewater Companion: Essays, Papers and Some Personal Observations on 30 Years of Research in Coastal Georgia History (2014), Sapelo: People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island (2017), Environmental Influences on Life & Labor in McIntosh County, Georgia (2018), Thomas Spalding, Antebellum Planter of Sapelo (2019), Life & Labor on Butler's Island: Rice Cultivation in the Altamaha Delta (2019), Blackbeard Island, A History (2019), Native American & Spanish Influences on McIntosh County, Georgia: An Archaeological Perspective (2019), and, forthcoming, Twentieth Century Sapelo Island: Howard E. Coffin & Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. (2020), Harris Neck & Its Environs: Land Use and Landscape in North McIntosh County (2020), Postbellum Sapelo Island: The Reconstruction Journal of Archibald Carlisle McKinley (2020), Early Families of McIntosh County, Georgia, 1736 to 1861 (2021), An Atlas of McIntosh County History (2020), and Notes on Coastal Georgia: Historical Viewpoints from a Life of Research & Writing (2021). Sullivan has contributed 12 articles to the online New Georgia Encyclopedia, and wrote the coastal chapter for The New Georgia Guide (1996). He was director of the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve from 1993 to 2013 and is now an independent writer and consultant living on his ancestral land overlooking the marshes and waters of Cedar Point in McIntosh County.