{"product_id":"the-journal-of-archibald-c-mckinley-9780820338118","title":"The Journal of Archibald C. McKinley","description":"\u003cp\u003eA valuable document from the Reconstruction era, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Archibald C. McKinley\u003c\/i\u003e offers the modern reader a rare glimpse of daily life on Sapelo Island, Georgia, as seen through the eyes of an upper-class farmer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA descendant of Scottish settlers, Archibald McKinley was born in Lexington, Georgia, in 1842 and served as a Confederate officer during the Civil War. Just after the war, he began farming near Milledgeville, Georgia, and within a year had met and married Sarah Spalding, a granddaughter of Thomas Spalding, who had built his plantation empire on Sapelo Island. In 1869, the McKinleys moved to Sapelo to raise cotton, sugar cane, and other crops. The bulk of this journal is a sustained account of their sojourn on the island through 1876, before their return to Milledgeville. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe brief, matter-of-fact entries that make up McKinley's journal focus mainly on the small occurrences that filled his days: farm work, hunting and fishing expeditions, sailing excursions, church services, changes in the weather, the disposition of his crops, the development of the Darien timber shipping trade. Scattered throughout, however, are intriguing references to dramatic events--shootings, trials, tensions between whites and the recently freed blacks--and to the processes of Reconstruction, as when McKinley notes that \"a company of Yankee soldiers\" had arrived at the penitentiary to ensure equal treatment of black and white convicts. The longest entry in the journal is a eulogy for a freedman named Scott, who, as McKinley's slave, had remained \"true as steel\" during McKinley's service in the Civil War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEditor Robert L. Humphries has included with the journal several of the McKinley family letters, written after Archibald and Sarah left Sapelo Island. In the introduction, historian Russell Duncan places the story in context, focusing on the larger events of Reconstruction as they pertained to Sapelo Island and to the relations between blacks and whites there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Archibald C. McKinley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820338118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchibald C. McKinley (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ARCHIBALD C. McKINLEY (1842-1917) was born in Lexington, Georgia, and served as a Confederate officer during the Civil War. In 1869, he and his family moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, to raise cotton, sugar cane, and other crops on a plantation that had been in his wife's family for generations. He remained there for the rest of his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert L. Humphries (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT L. HUMPHRIES was a biologist and ecologist who worked for Georgia Power and the Environmental Protection Agency. He was an avid outdoorsman who made many trips to Sapelo Island, studying the barrier island's history and heritage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40195954081907,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_09898187-5f59-45ec-be67-9779589f318e.jpg?v=1655992802","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-journal-of-archibald-c-mckinley-9780820338118","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}