Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama: The Journal of Augustus Benners, 1850-1885Mercer University Press, 2007 - 357 halaman ""Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama offers a rare look into the life of a Civil War character many would say they love to hate: the plantation owner. A slave-owning cotton grower, Augustus Benners recorded decades of his mostly gritty and unglamorous plantation life ... Deft editing, annotation, and explanatory notes by Glenn and Virginia Linden complement and elucidate Benners's historical accounts"--From publisher's description. |
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... bright & windy Ther 42 ° to day bright gusty & quite cold . Ther 32 at 8. The financial outlook is very bad . The news of suspension of State Bk of N York and the many failures in London & N York may produce a panic . Congress occupied ...
... bright & windy Ther 42 ° to day bright gusty & quite cold . Ther 32 at 8. The financial outlook is very bad . The news of suspension of State Bk of N York and the many failures in London & N York may produce a panic . Congress occupied ...
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... bright day . Night bright and lovely - to day as fine as possible Ther 60 ° Hayes took the oath Saturday March 3rd and delivered his inaugural on Monday from North Portico of Capitol . His speech is a very poor affair - a bone is flung ...
... bright day . Night bright and lovely - to day as fine as possible Ther 60 ° Hayes took the oath Saturday March 3rd and delivered his inaugural on Monday from North Portico of Capitol . His speech is a very poor affair - a bone is flung ...
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... bright day - attended church in the morning — and funeral of Mr Seldens child in afternoon . Ed came in and spent the day & night with us . It clouded up last night and is raining this morning - having recd letter from Dr EBH [ aywood ] ...
... bright day - attended church in the morning — and funeral of Mr Seldens child in afternoon . Ed came in and spent the day & night with us . It clouded up last night and is raining this morning - having recd letter from Dr EBH [ aywood ] ...
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