Papers, 1864.

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Papers, 1864.

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Letters relating to Mercer (1792-1879?), a physician, planter, and banker. One item is a letter to C.H. Russel [Russell?] explaining Mercer's refusal to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States, his Unionist sentiments, his Mississippi plantations, and guerrilla activity near Natchez, Mississippi. The other item is a copy of a letter from Secretary of the Tresury Salmon P. Chase to Benjamin Franklin Flanders about Mercer's case.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Mercer, William Newton, 1792-1874

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William Newton Mercer, born in Cecil County, Maryland, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and during the War of 1812 as an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army. He later was stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi, as Army Post-Surgeon and established a private practice in Natchez after retiring from military service in 1821. He and his wife, Anna Eliza Farar of Adams County, Mississippi, had two daughters and lived at Laurel Hill Plantation in Adams County, w...