Description
Book Synopsis Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah. From Robert Barnwell Rhett''s inflammatory 1844 speech in Bluffton calling for secession, to the last desperate attempts by Confederate forces to halt Sherman''s juggernaut, the region was torn apart by war.
This history tells the story through the experiences of two radically different military units--the Confederate Beaufort Volunteer Artillery and the U.S. 1st South Carolina Regiment, the first black Union regiment to fight in the war--both organized in Beaufort, the heart of the Lowcountry.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: The Kansas Ticket Gang
- 1. Rodney Gets a Job
- 2. Lawrence, the University of Kansas and Basketball
- 3. Basketball
- 4. Changing Athletics Directors, Coaches and Conferences
- 5. Tickets: A Brief Biography
- 6. Charlette Coble and the University of Oklahoma
- 7. Rodney "Tickets" Jones: Ticket Whisperer of Mass Street
- 8. Junction City
- 9. Money and the AD Shuffle
- 10. Charlette: When Home Becomes Work and Work Becomes Home
- 11. Perkins
- 12. Charlette Comes to Town
- 13. It Worked!
- 14. Complimentary Tickets and Ticket Ownership
- 15. The Ticket Gang Scales Up
- 16. The Greatest Year in the History of KU Athletics
- 17. Big Trouble Visits Big D
- 18. Coming Apart
- 19. Everybody Knows
- 20. Cooperation
- 21. Adieu, Lew, Adieu
- 22. Indictment: A True Bill
- 23. Here Comes the Judge for the Family Blubaugh
- 24. Here Comes the Judge for Rodney "Tickets" Jones
- 25. Judgment for Kassie Liebsch and Ben Kirtland III
- 26. Reciprocity at Home: Tickets for Tickets
- 27. The Oklahoma Connection and Poor Accounting
- 28. Summing Up: The Box Score and the Original Rules
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Code of Ethical Conduct, Kansas Athletics, Inc.
- Appendix B: Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
