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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... cold , drought , heat , and crops and governed his days accordingly . He had a large mind and closely followed news from the North , from Europe , and from Asia . He married happily , and his wife bore many children . But the world ...
... cold , drought , heat , and crops and governed his days accordingly . He had a large mind and closely followed news from the North , from Europe , and from Asia . He married happily , and his wife bore many children . But the world ...
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... cold snap killed the peaches and peas . Corn and potatoes were also damaged . The price of cotton continued to decline . As agricultural conditions worsened , Benners began to rely more heavily upon his legal practice for a regular ...
... cold snap killed the peaches and peas . Corn and potatoes were also damaged . The price of cotton continued to decline . As agricultural conditions worsened , Benners began to rely more heavily upon his legal practice for a regular ...
Halaman 34
... cold day but clear . I 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 ...
... cold day but clear . I 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 ...
Halaman 48
... cold and wet but on we trudged and arrived at the house of a man named Silas about dark and just as it again commenced raining — he didnt want to take us but finally consented— & glad enough we were to stop . I got from him an old red ...
... cold and wet but on we trudged and arrived at the house of a man named Silas about dark and just as it again commenced raining — he didnt want to take us but finally consented— & glad enough we were to stop . I got from him an old red ...
Halaman 59
... cold . Tom brot up a load of fodder on yesterday — Lincolns inaugural was received last night and is considered very warlike . Probably before new hostilities have begun — perhaps at fort Sumter — he denies the right of secession and ...
... cold . Tom brot up a load of fodder on yesterday — Lincolns inaugural was received last night and is considered very warlike . Probably before new hostilities have begun — perhaps at fort Sumter — he denies the right of secession and ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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