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Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry

Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry Essay .................... Unburied Treasure Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry by Scott Peeples with photographs by Michelle Van Parys Moonrise, Sullivan's Island hile researching his 1885 biography of Edgar Allan Poe for Houghton Mifflin's American Men of Letters series, George E. Woodberry discovered that Poe had enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1827 under the name of Edgar Perry. As is now well known, Poe was shipped to Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, a barrier island on Charleston Harbor, where he was stationed from November 1827 until December 1828. His company was then transferred to Fortress Monroe in Point Comfort, Virginia, where Poe was promoted to Sergeant Major before arranging a substitute and being discharged in April 1829. Poe had deliberately hidden his Army stint--and along with it, his year on Sullivan's Island--instead fabricating stories of foreign adventure in Greece and Russia to account for these years in biographical sketches that appeared during his lifetime. But suddenly, thirty-six years after Poe's death, South Carolina could, in some small measure, claim him, along with Boston, Richmond, Charlottesville, West Point, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. This essay explores the efforts of Charleston and Sullivan's Island to write Poe into http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry

Southern Cultures , Volume 22 (2) – Jun 11, 2016
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Essay .................... Unburied Treasure Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry by Scott Peeples with photographs by Michelle Van Parys Moonrise, Sullivan's Island hile researching his 1885 biography of Edgar Allan Poe for Houghton Mifflin's American Men of Letters series, George E. Woodberry discovered that Poe had enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1827 under the name of Edgar Perry. As is now well known, Poe was shipped to Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, a barrier island on Charleston Harbor, where he was stationed from November 1827 until December 1828. His company was then transferred to Fortress Monroe in Point Comfort, Virginia, where Poe was promoted to Sergeant Major before arranging a substitute and being discharged in April 1829. Poe had deliberately hidden his Army stint--and along with it, his year on Sullivan's Island--instead fabricating stories of foreign adventure in Greece and Russia to account for these years in biographical sketches that appeared during his lifetime. But suddenly, thirty-six years after Poe's death, South Carolina could, in some small measure, claim him, along with Boston, Richmond, Charlottesville, West Point, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. This essay explores the efforts of Charleston and Sullivan's Island to write Poe into

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