Letters, 1857-1865.

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Letters, 1857-1865.

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Letters, 1857 Oct. 26 and 1865 July 16. The first letter was from Charlie in Montevallo, Shelby Co., Ala., to King, also in Montevallo, in which Charlie discussed his bout with typhoid fever, the prosecution of "some rascals" for stealing and selling blacks, and other local events. The second letter was from King, in Montevallo, to an unidentified person and place. In it King discussed the "cruel" murder of federal prisoners by S.W. Ferguson, formerly a brigadier general of the Confederate State Army. The alleged murders took place during Gen. Sherman's march through Ga. in 1864 Sept.

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

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Ferguson, S. W.

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King, Frank R.

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King was an attorney at Montevallo, Shelby Co., Ala., and in New Orleans, La., and was a captain in S.W. Ferguson's cavalry brigade in the Confederate States Army. From the description of Letters, 1857-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122441164 ...

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