Hilary A. Herbert Papers, 1864-1931

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Hilary A. Herbert Papers, 1864-1931

Hilary A. Herbert Papers, 1864-1931

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Hilary A. Herbert was an Alabama andWashington, D.C., lawyer, author, Democratic United States representative,1877-1893, and secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897. The collection includes his correspondence, writings,speeches, and scrapbooks. Correspondence, 1892-1919, is with friends, including manynational politicians, concerning politics, foreign affairs, and, from 1904,Reconstruction and the race question. Also included are Herbert's speeches; a written in 1864; European travel notes, 1887; historical, patriotic, and generalarticles; diary, 1910-1917; scrapbooks of his career; notes on his book, TheAbolition Crusade and its Consequences; and reminiscences written 1903 and 1917covering his early life in Laurens, S.C., and Greenville, Ala., his education at theUniversity of Alabama and the University of Virginia, his Confederate service, andhis political career, and containing his reflections on slavery, abolition, theCivil War and Reconstruction, and the race question. Also included are scatteredpapers of his daughter, Ella (Mrs. Benjamin) Micou of Washington, D.C. History of the 8th Alabama Regiment, C.S.A.,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection