Bill Arp's Peace Papers: Columns on War and Reconstruction, 1861-1873 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781570038358)

First published in 1873, Bill Arp's Peace Papers, by Charles Henry Smith (1826-1903), is a collection of writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction by the Confederacy's most famous humorist. Smith, a lawyer in Rome, Georgia, took the penname "Bill Arp" in April 1861, following the firing on Fort Sumter, when he wrote a satiric response to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation ordering the Southern rebels to disperse within twenty days. In his letter addressed to "Mister Linkhorn" and written in the semiliterate backwoods dialect adopted by numerous mid-nineteenth-century humorists, Smith advised the president, "I tried my darndest yisterday to disperse and retire... but it was no go."

Author: Bill Arp
ISBN-10: 157003835X
ISBN-13: 9781570038358
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 285