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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... road in Greene county to our destination just in time to escape a furious storm of rain wind thunder & lightning . Hunt [ , ] Hardaway [ , ] Webb & myself staid here all night — and the next day spoke at Union — dined with Billy Miller ...
... road in Greene county to our destination just in time to escape a furious storm of rain wind thunder & lightning . Hunt [ , ] Hardaway [ , ] Webb & myself staid here all night — and the next day spoke at Union — dined with Billy Miller ...
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... roads and revenue , Boligee , Eutaw . Ibid . , 37 . 12 Alfred P. Hatch , Benners's father - in - law and a wealthy plantation owner with over 200 slaves , supported Augustus Benners in the early years of his career . conspicuously in ...
... roads and revenue , Boligee , Eutaw . Ibid . , 37 . 12 Alfred P. Hatch , Benners's father - in - law and a wealthy plantation owner with over 200 slaves , supported Augustus Benners in the early years of his career . conspicuously in ...
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... Roads . The first proposition known as the omnibus was for the Governor to issue State bonds to each of [ the ] roads at the rate of $ 8000 a mile which complied with the terms of the bill . This proposal gave great concern to the ...
... Roads . The first proposition known as the omnibus was for the Governor to issue State bonds to each of [ the ] roads at the rate of $ 8000 a mile which complied with the terms of the bill . This proposal gave great concern to the ...
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... road received a loan of $ 400,000 for two years on mortgage & personal security . This I voted for considering it in a business view as proper the security not only being ample but readily convertible into the money without embarrassing ...
... road received a loan of $ 400,000 for two years on mortgage & personal security . This I voted for considering it in a business view as proper the security not only being ample but readily convertible into the money without embarrassing ...
Halaman 49
... road was pretty bad & mules dull — found all well . Children having all had the measles in my absence and gotten well of it.31 In summer 1858 , Benners took a long trip to his childhood home in North Carolina and then to Washington DC ...
... road was pretty bad & mules dull — found all well . Children having all had the measles in my absence and gotten well of it.31 In summer 1858 , Benners took a long trip to his childhood home in North Carolina and then to Washington DC ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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