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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... look for lands in Arkansas and one or two with him . I knew none of the other passengers , reached New Orleans Sunday morning 17th Feby [ January ] and stopped at Oviatts , where I found my brother . I was truly delighted to see him and ...
... look for lands in Arkansas and one or two with him . I knew none of the other passengers , reached New Orleans Sunday morning 17th Feby [ January ] and stopped at Oviatts , where I found my brother . I was truly delighted to see him and ...
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... looks.30 The breakfast being dispatched , Edward went to the Wharf in his buggy to send up our baggage & freight — and on its arrival the opening and distribution was delightful . he had bot a great many knicknacks and articles for ...
... looks.30 The breakfast being dispatched , Edward went to the Wharf in his buggy to send up our baggage & freight — and on its arrival the opening and distribution was delightful . he had bot a great many knicknacks and articles for ...
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... look out and see what was the matter , when on looking towards the bow of the boat I saw that the cotton was tumbling off and floating down the Bayou — I gathered my carpet bag and went up on the Hurricane deck — she was sinking — they ...
... look out and see what was the matter , when on looking towards the bow of the boat I saw that the cotton was tumbling off and floating down the Bayou — I gathered my carpet bag and went up on the Hurricane deck — she was sinking — they ...
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... look out for shelter — We accordingly determined to move . Leslie the old french pilot who was presumed to know the country better than any one else said we could not get out that the high water had filled all the bayous in such a way ...
... look out for shelter — We accordingly determined to move . Leslie the old french pilot who was presumed to know the country better than any one else said we could not get out that the high water had filled all the bayous in such a way ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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