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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... reached the terra incognita — and must reserve my judgement until I am longer & better acquainted with the habits , manners & c of the people . The most perplexing point to a person in my situation I find is where ought I to locate ...
... reached the terra incognita — and must reserve my judgement until I am longer & better acquainted with the habits , manners & c of the people . The most perplexing point to a person in my situation I find is where ought I to locate ...
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... reached New York and is lying in state at City Hall . Cholera is very bad in Spain & France . " He died later in the same day of apoplexy ( a stroke ) at the age of sixty - five . He was The Journal of Augustus Benners , 1850-1885 15.
... reached New York and is lying in state at City Hall . Cholera is very bad in Spain & France . " He died later in the same day of apoplexy ( a stroke ) at the age of sixty - five . He was The Journal of Augustus Benners , 1850-1885 15.
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... reached home but recovering and was much more delighted to get away from Montgomery than I had been to go there .... 19 Alfred Hatch Benners , eldest son of Augustus and Jane Benners , was born on 22 February 1849 in Greensboro , AL ...
... reached home but recovering and was much more delighted to get away from Montgomery than I had been to go there .... 19 Alfred Hatch Benners , eldest son of Augustus and Jane Benners , was born on 22 February 1849 in Greensboro , AL ...
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... reached Newbern I met a white boy riding — who informed me that Thomas R. Borden had been shot the night previous — in his bed asleep — thro the window with balls.24 I found immense excitement in Newbern on account of it and went to the ...
... reached Newbern I met a white boy riding — who informed me that Thomas R. Borden had been shot the night previous — in his bed asleep — thro the window with balls.24 I found immense excitement in Newbern on account of it and went to the ...
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... reached Mobile friday morning about 10 o clock . We had a very hard blow and rain as we went into Mobile — much damage was done by it to the shipping at Orleans and Galveston . I went to the Battle House thro the rain and staid til ...
... reached Mobile friday morning about 10 o clock . We had a very hard blow and rain as we went into Mobile — much damage was done by it to the shipping at Orleans and Galveston . I went to the Battle House thro the rain and staid til ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
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