When 26-year-old former journalist Margaret Mitchell found herself recuperating from an ankle injury at her home on Crescent Street in Atlanta, Georgia, she decided to write a novel. It was 1926. A decade later, the book would become that year’s best-selling work of American fiction and – the following year – would win the Pulitzer Prize.

Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind” is set in Georgia during the Civil War and concerns Scarlett O’Hara – the wealthy daughter of a plantation owner – and her quest for love. Amidst the political concerns in the novel, is a character referred to by Mitchell as “a Republican named Bullock” who was opposing Democratic candidate John B. Gordon for governor. The character was based on a real man, one who became a familiar fixture in Charlestown, Rhode Isla

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