Slave-life on a plantation before the war : manuscript, 1893 Apr. 4.

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Slave-life on a plantation before the war : manuscript, 1893 Apr. 4.

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Reminiscences were written by Hammond to his son, Orlando Davis Hammond, while he was a Harvard College student. The material concerns Eli Hammond's memories of his youth spent on his father's plantation prior to the American Civil War. Primarily concerns his memory of the life of the slaves. The plantation was probably in Mississippi where Hammond was born.

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Hammond, Eli Shelby.

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Eli Shelby Hammond (1838-1904) was born in Brandon, Mississippi. His parents were plantation owners, John C.P. Hammond and Priscilla Attabee Shelby. He married Fannie Davis (born ca.1843) in 1864, who was also from Mississippi. Hammond was a private practice lawyer in Ripley, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee, a Captain in the Army of the Confederacy (1861-1865), and a federal Judge in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee (1878-1904). His son, Orlando Davis Hammond (1867-1925)...

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897

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Historian, cartographer, and librarian of the Boston Public Library. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Henry Harrisse, Paris, France, 1891 Oct. 10. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 40998446 Winsor graduated from Harvard in 1853 and was a librarian at Harvard and at the Boston Public Library. From the description of Papers of Justin Winsor, 1847-1897 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972933 Winsor was libr...

Hammond, Orlando Davis,

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