States Rights Gist A South Carolina General of the Civil War

States Rights Gist A South Carolina General of the Civil War by Walter Brian Cisco, White Mane Publishing Co 1991, HB/DJ. This is a Biography on States Rights Gist – he was a Harvard Law School graduate who went on to become a Confederate general. His performance in high command led him to become a militia general at the age of twenty-four. He participated in the first shots at Fort Sumter and lead the charge at Franklin, Tennessee, dying gallantly in the process. In the interim, he was a combat leader at First Manassas, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and the Atlanta campaign.