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On a hot day in June 1865, young Harvard graduate John Richard Dennett boarded the steamer Creole for Richmond, Virginia.
It was a scant two months since Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in New York City, bound on April 9; the war was over, but the shape of the peace to come had been thrown into turmoil and uncertainty by Abraham Lincoln’s assassination less than a week later.
For Dennett, 26, born in Canada, raised in Massachusetts, it was the start of a remarkable eight-month journey of discovery that would produce the most vivid set of portraits and depictions of the defeated South to emerge from the crucial months following the Civil War.
On foot and horseback, by creaking trains and bumping stagecoaches, Dennett visited cities and back – waters, plantation houses and shanties, spoke to blacks and whites, rich and poor, Unionists and fire-eaters, and chronicled the complexities of a land and people that most Northerners had only the vaguest sense of after four ye