Patricia McNeely

USC Professor Emerita Patricia G. “Pat” McNeely taught writing and reporting in the College of Journalism for 33 years. Before joining the USC faculty, McNeely was a reporter and editor for The Greenville News, The State and The Columbia Record. She is the author of “Historic South Carolina Ghosts and Legends;” “Handwritten Recipes and Memories from America’s First Families;” “Henry Timrod: poet, reluctant soldier and war correspondent; ” “Lincoln, Sherman, Davis and the Lost Confederate Gold;” “Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun and the Petticoat Affair;” “Eyewitnesses to General Sherman’s Civil War Campaign;” “Sherman’s Flame and Blame Campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas … and the burning of Columbia” and four more.