Charlemont

In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative editions of out of print works by William Gilmore Simms, antebellum South Carolina's preeminent man of letters.This is Part 1 of the author's epic depiction of the so-called Kentucky Tragedy, the sensational 1820's murder trial for a revenge slaying by a cuckolded man.