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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... John Westbrook , one of my students , showed me parts of a plantation journal written by Augustus Benners , his great - great- grandfather . He asked if I would be interested in editing it for publication . I took it home and showed it ...
... John Westbrook , one of my students , showed me parts of a plantation journal written by Augustus Benners , his great - great- grandfather . He asked if I would be interested in editing it for publication . I took it home and showed it ...
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... which kept me 3 days longer away from this place . On tuesday Jan 27 we rode over to Linden together and here I am . During the next few months Benners boarded at John Rains's 6 Disunion , War , Defeat , and Recovery in Alabama.
... which kept me 3 days longer away from this place . On tuesday Jan 27 we rode over to Linden together and here I am . During the next few months Benners boarded at John Rains's 6 Disunion , War , Defeat , and Recovery in Alabama.
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... John Rains's house in Linden . Then in March , the brothers moved to Greensboro where they boarded with the Harveys for several weeks . The following week the two brothers took possession of William Huntington's house at a monthly cost ...
... John Rains's house in Linden . Then in March , the brothers moved to Greensboro where they boarded with the Harveys for several weeks . The following week the two brothers took possession of William Huntington's house at a monthly cost ...
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... John C. Fremont , a " black Republican , " being elected president in 1856. A staunch Whig no longer belonging to a major party , he finally decided to vote for James Buchanan , the Democratic candidate , who supported " the true ...
... John C. Fremont , a " black Republican , " being elected president in 1856. A staunch Whig no longer belonging to a major party , he finally decided to vote for James Buchanan , the Democratic candidate , who supported " the true ...
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... John Turpin in the Alabama legislature , and worked in Washington , DC for his closest childhood friend , US Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson , a hero of the Spanish American war . Returning to Greensboro , he wrote an ...
... John Turpin in the Alabama legislature , and worked in Washington , DC for his closest childhood friend , US Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson , a hero of the Spanish American war . Returning to Greensboro , he wrote an ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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