As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of murders from the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina. Featuring a cast of unlikely antagonists-a prominent store owner, an elementary school teacher, and a law enforcement officer-the acts of revenge resulted in five murders and a trio of executions, including that of the first woman to be electrocuted in South Carolina. Through interviews with members of the two families involved, T. Felder Dorn probes the longstanding feud between the Logues and the Timmermans to uncover this chilling plot of resentment, revenge, and violence. Dorn's careful research weaves together the oral history of family members affected by the shooting with court transcripts, prisoner confessions, and coroners' reports to produce a truly gripping account of the events.
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"If you have any interest in history or true crime, The Guns of Meeting Street is a winner."— Spartanburg Herald Journal
"Dorn’s rigorously researched book unfolds in a clear, straightforward style that renders the events all the more disturbing."—The State
"Dorn’s extremely impressive book has all the elements—is fascinating in its entirety. And for every reader who loves a good mystery, The Guns of Meeting Street is available to intrigue, inform, incite and excite. It’ll never get a chance to gather dust on any bookshelf."—Union (N.J.) Leader
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A native of Bowman, South Carolina, T. FELDER DORN is dean emeritus of Kean University in Union, New Jersey, where he was an administrator and professor of chemistry for twenty-eight years before retiring in 2001. He is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Washington in Seattle and the author of The Tompkins School, 1925–1953: A Community Institution.
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Violence in the Old New South,
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This review is from: The Guns of Meeting Street: A Southern Tragedy (Hardcover)
This is the story of a family feud in Edgefield Co., SC in the early 40s. Dorn does an outstanding job recreating a time and place where roads were unpaved, electrification just arrived, and acts of vengeance still expected . You can almost see the country store and feel the heat and the dust. There are a series of shootings and a shoot-out with the sheriff. The only weak part is the section in which Dorn substitutes abridged trial transcripts for his own telling of the tale.This book merits attention and readers.
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Many friends asked me if I had read "The Guns of Meeting Street" and told me what it was all about. Since I live within 20 miles of Edgefield, SC and recognized some of the names in the book, I thought it would be interesting. When I started reading, I could not put the book down. The author, T. Felder Dorn did a huge amount of research for this book and there's a lot of quotes from trial transcripts included which makes you feel like you are right there in the courtroom. Guess people living on Meeting Street just took the law into their own hands in the late 1930's and 1940's! One of the characters in the book, Sue Stidham Logue, was the first woman in South Carolina to be sentenced to death by electrocution. She went to the electric chair like she might be going to get her hair done. It is a very interesting book of facts and well documented. Mr T Felder Dorn did an outstanding job.
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Davis Timmerman, Sue Logue, George Logue, Clarence Bagwell, Meeting Street, South Carolina, Sheriff Allen, Wallace Logue, Fred Dorn, Annie Lee, Deputy Clark, Solicitor Griffith, James Arnold, Cornelia Timmerman, Wad Allen, Uncle George, Anna Logue, Clyde Bledsoe, Tompkins School, Site Logue, Strom Thurmond, Aunt Sue, Senator Nicholson, Spartanburg County, Bill Logue New!
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Davis Timmerman, Sue Logue, George Logue, Clarence Bagwell, Meeting Street, South Carolina, Sheriff Allen, Wallace Logue, Fred Dorn, Annie Lee, Deputy Clark, Solicitor Griffith, James Arnold, Cornelia Timmerman, Wad Allen, Uncle George, Anna Logue, Clyde Bledsoe, Tompkins School, Site Logue, Strom Thurmond, Aunt Sue, Senator Nicholson, Spartanburg County, Bill Logue New!
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