Manse - Interesting figure in South Carolina Reconstruction History

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Published August 23, 2005

A Greenville tv report is mentioning a local author (Upstate SC) having his book read from this week on NPR. The book is Manse: (One Man's War) : A Biography Based on the Life and Legend of Manson Sherrill Jolly

He seems to be an interesting character of Upstate South Carolina's history in the Reconstruction Period. One site about him is titled "Manson Sherrill Jolly, South Carolina's Own Jesse James, Rebel Hero Or Renegade Murderer?"

He's an interesting part of Anderson history as well as that of South Carolina.