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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... Monday . " Other entries were more detailed but largely about economic matters related to his plantation . Exceptions were his mentioning the conflict in Congress over the issue of slavery in the compromise of 1850 and the death of ...
... Monday . " Other entries were more detailed but largely about economic matters related to his plantation . Exceptions were his mentioning the conflict in Congress over the issue of slavery in the compromise of 1850 and the death of ...
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... Monday the 27th day of June — there was quite a large company assembled , a good deal of interest having been excited on the Liquor selling question — Messrs Webb & Hunt were the Candidates for the Senate 1 — and Mr Inge & myself the ...
... Monday the 27th day of June — there was quite a large company assembled , a good deal of interest having been excited on the Liquor selling question — Messrs Webb & Hunt were the Candidates for the Senate 1 — and Mr Inge & myself the ...
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... Monday being the 4th July we went to Springfield and spoke — there was a good turn out and we dined at Mr Clevelands . I was delighted with the Whig feeling I found prevailing here — Made many acquaintances from Springfield we went to ...
... Monday being the 4th July we went to Springfield and spoke — there was a good turn out and we dined at Mr Clevelands . I was delighted with the Whig feeling I found prevailing here — Made many acquaintances from Springfield we went to ...
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... Monday we spoke at Eutaw to a very large crowd in the Court house — and staid that night at Fields hotel — on tuesday morning we rode to Bradly Ridgeway's to breakfast and rode from there to Boligee where they had prepared a splendid ...
... Monday we spoke at Eutaw to a very large crowd in the Court house — and staid that night at Fields hotel — on tuesday morning we rode to Bradly Ridgeway's to breakfast and rode from there to Boligee where they had prepared a splendid ...
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... Monday the day of the election I was at Clinton — staid at Mrs Harkness hotel — There was a very hard rain on the morning of the election , and the vote was a small one . I was however much gratified with the support I got which would ...
... Monday the day of the election I was at Clinton — staid at Mrs Harkness hotel — There was a very hard rain on the morning of the election , and the vote was a small one . I was however much gratified with the support I got which would ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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