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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... missed . Jane had gone to Dallas to visit their son Alfred and on the way home at a brief visit at Benners's brother in Jefferson , Texas , she died . He grieved for her for months : " Her death leaves a great void in my life which ...
... missed . Jane had gone to Dallas to visit their son Alfred and on the way home at a brief visit at Benners's brother in Jefferson , Texas , she died . He grieved for her for months : " Her death leaves a great void in my life which ...
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... missed my dear little Gus very much — and every thing reminded me of him . I try to think of him as an angel in Heaven . Betsey Vail , Mary Hatch and Parker Hatch who had been spending several days with us spent Christmas at my house ...
... missed my dear little Gus very much — and every thing reminded me of him . I try to think of him as an angel in Heaven . Betsey Vail , Mary Hatch and Parker Hatch who had been spending several days with us spent Christmas at my house ...
Halaman 40
... Miss — and brought here yesterday evening — was before the magistrate today and trial put off till tomorrow —... The approaching election in fall 1856 forced Benners to consider the possibility that a " black Republican " might be ...
... Miss — and brought here yesterday evening — was before the magistrate today and trial put off till tomorrow —... The approaching election in fall 1856 forced Benners to consider the possibility that a " black Republican " might be ...
Halaman 45
... Miss river — and can readily understand why their owners are unwilling to part with them , the strange appearance is presented all along here of a river higher than the country . 29 James T. May , steamboat captain and warehouse keeper ...
... Miss river — and can readily understand why their owners are unwilling to part with them , the strange appearance is presented all along here of a river higher than the country . 29 James T. May , steamboat captain and warehouse keeper ...
Halaman 46
... Miss about 250 or 300 miles from New Orleans takes its name from the color of the water which is red and arises from the color of the soil along its banks which is as red as red ocre . And the finest cotton lands I ever saw . I got ...
... Miss about 250 or 300 miles from New Orleans takes its name from the color of the water which is red and arises from the color of the soil along its banks which is as red as red ocre . And the finest cotton lands I ever saw . I got ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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