Papers, 1842-1895.

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Birckhead, Edward F. Papers, 1842-1895.

Papers, 1842-1895.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19242422

Correspondence, professional bills, and accounts. Papers of the earlier years are concerned with prices and the shipment of corn, meal, plaster, wheat, flour, and tobacco; later papers include bills for professional services. Personal letters from James S. Hamm, Alabama lawyer, written during the 1840s, give details of Alabama social life and customs, and describe the murder of Sidney S. Perry by John A. Winston, state senator and later governor of Alabama. Civil War letters deal with Birckhead's work with a committee for the aid of indigent families of soldiers. Letters to Birckhead's daughter, Millie, from friends and former schoolmates at the Piedmont Female Academy, are more concerned with social life than with the war. Postwar papers include accounts of the estates of Nehemiah Birckhead and William P. Wilkerson, of which Edward Birckhead was executor.

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