Mr. Hagy continues his systematic reconstruction of the ante-bellum population of Charleston, South Carolina with this, his fourth volume of transcriptions of Charleston city directories available from Clearfield Company For this new book the author has compiled all the names and other pertinent genealogical information which can be found in the Charleston city directories of 1830-31, 1835-36, 1836 (a supplement), 1837-38, and 1840-41. The names in each of the five directories are arranged in alphabetical order, and typically, the directory entries furnish the name of the Charleston resident, his address, and his occupation, or in the case of female heads of household, if widowed.
By day, Michael Adelberg is a health policy wonk on Capitol Hill; by evening, he is an historian focused on civil warfare during the American Revolution; about midnight, he turns into a fiction writer and reviewer. Sleep is overrated.
Adelberg is the author of publications across all three interests, including: the Medicare & You Handbook (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1996-7); the award-winning American Revolution in Monmouth County: Theatre of Spoil and Destruction (History Press, 2010); and his first novel, A Thinking Man's Bully (The Permanent Press, 2011). Visit his website, www.michaeladelberg.com to learn more about him and his publications.
