George Carroll Harris papers, 1836-1886.

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George Carroll Harris papers, 1836-1886.

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Family correspondence, genealogical data, and a scrapbook of Rev. George C. Harris. Most letters, dated 1855-1886, are from Elisha W. Harris (1799-1887), father of George C. Harris. There are also letters from brothers Arthur H. Harris, a lawyer who was elected Louisiana attorney general in 1873 and was murdered soon thereafter, and Dr. Elisha Myrick Harris, a Confederate soldier who was killed early in the war in Virginia. Most letters were written from Louisiana, where the family had moved from Tennessee. The family plantation near Monroe was named Waco Place. Topics dealt with in the papers include Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War, Louisiana and national politics, slave labor, the raising of cotton, steamboats, railroads, the weather, farm conditions, the postal service, the Civil War, fever epidemics, the 1860 election, Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, and reconstruction. Also included are letters to George C. Harris from Bishop C.T. Quintard, 1858-1878.

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Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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Harris, George C. (George Carroll), 1833 or 1834-1911

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Episcopal priest in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, and Mt. Helena, Mississippi. From the description of George Carroll Harris papers, 1836-1886. (Tennessee State Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 28468918 ...

Harris family.

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Harris, Arthur Hamilton, 1832-1873.

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Harris, Elisha Myrick.

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Quintard, C. T. (Charles Todd), 1824-1898

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Charles Todd Quintard was a chaplain and surgeon of the Confederate Army and a Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee, 1865-1898. He was the first vice-chancellor, 1867-1872, of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. From the description of Charles Todd Quintard diaries, 1864-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122520217 Protestant Episcopal clergyman. From the description of Papers, 1857-1899. (Duke University Library). WorldCat recor...

Harris, Elisha W., 1799-1887.

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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...