Carpetbagger of Conscience
A Biography of John Emory Bryant

Ruth Currie (Author)

9780823219384

Paperback / softback, published 1 June 1999

238 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

This is a biography of John Emory Bryant, a veteran of the Civil War who became a Carpetbagger in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. A member of the Eighth Maine Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, Bryant fought at the Battle of the Crater. After his service in the war, he returned to Maine to study law. But, before he finished his degree, he was contacted by his former commander and friend, General Rufus Saxton, to join him in "new work . . . among former slaves in the South" with the Freedmen's Bureau, an organization designed to protect and assist the newly freed slaves.