Recollections, ca. 1870-1897 [microfilm manuscript].

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Recollections, ca. 1870-1897 [microfilm manuscript].

Recollections of Hardaway, born in Georgia and raised in Alabama; educated at St. Joseph's College, Ala., and Emory College, Ga.; with the U.S. Army in Mexico; superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad; Alabama planter; Confederate artillery officer in Virginia; engineering professor at Auburn University, 1873-1881, and at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897; and engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. Also included are family histories and articles relating to various phases of Hardaway's life.

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