The Children of Pride

Description

Robert Manson Myers records an intimate perspective of a Georgian plantation family revealing a proud but tainted society from its Antebellum days through chaotic climaxes of defeat and occupation. Myer’s details the impact of the Civil War upon the South with 1200 letters written by the family and friends of Reverend Dr. Charles Colcock Jones of Liberty County, Georgia. The Children of the Pride highlights the years between 1854-1868