Autobiography of Baynes, 1870.

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Autobiography of Baynes, 1870.

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Carbon copy of a typewritten autobiography by a man named Baynes who never presented his first name. The author of the item, son of Charles Baynes (1798- ), was born in Clinton, Georgia in 1824. He lived in Georgia, attended college in New Haven, Connecticut (probably Yale University), and eventually settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was disabled by a wound in the arm at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. After the federal occupation of New Orleans in April 1862, Baynes moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he worked as an official for the Confederate Government. He writes about some consultations with Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, and with General Robert E. Lee.

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