Benjamin Franklin Perry may be Greenville’s most complicated Civil War-era political figure. He was a lawyer, editor, legislator, Unionist and reluctant Confederate supporter. He spent most of his public life warning South Carolina against disunion. Then, when secession came, he went with his state.
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