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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... hard to tell the difference , so if a capital was required it was used . Benners had a very large vocabulary , including Latin and Greek words , and was an excellent speller . However , he spelled Tuesday as " Teusday " —especially ...
... hard to tell the difference , so if a capital was required it was used . Benners had a very large vocabulary , including Latin and Greek words , and was an excellent speller . However , he spelled Tuesday as " Teusday " —especially ...
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... hard to stop the creation of a new bank and the effort to " flood the country with spurious currency . " A year later , as chairman of the judiciary committee and a member of the ways and means committee , he tried to block efforts to ...
... hard to stop the creation of a new bank and the effort to " flood the country with spurious currency . " A year later , as chairman of the judiciary committee and a member of the ways and means committee , he tried to block efforts to ...
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... hard one nothing to do and no ability to do anything or rather no desire . " Benners's father - in - law , Alfred Hatch , died in 1879. Jane , Benners's wife of thirty - five years , died in 1881. These were crushing blows . Alfred had ...
... hard one nothing to do and no ability to do anything or rather no desire . " Benners's father - in - law , Alfred Hatch , died in 1879. Jane , Benners's wife of thirty - five years , died in 1881. These were crushing blows . Alfred had ...
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... hard to please and be helpful . " Several years later , Liz decided to go to Texas to visit her brother . This greatly disturbed her father— " What shall I do — she is housekeeper . " After her father's death , she married A. C. Evans ...
... hard to please and be helpful . " Several years later , Liz decided to go to Texas to visit her brother . This greatly disturbed her father— " What shall I do — she is housekeeper . " After her father's death , she married A. C. Evans ...
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... hard as planter , slaveholder , lawyer , and politician . He was also a family man and active in the Episcopal church . But it all began in the city of Greensboro where he lived and kept his journal for thirty - five years until his ...
... hard as planter , slaveholder , lawyer , and politician . He was also a family man and active in the Episcopal church . But it all began in the city of Greensboro where he lived and kept his journal for thirty - five years until his ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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