Reminiscences, 1916.

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Reminiscences, 1916.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955943

Chiefly reminiscences of Whiting's life as a railroad man, first at Wilmington then at Hamlet, N.C., including numerous anecdotes of wrecks, thefts, and investigations; animadversions on some of the leading men of the constituent companys of the Seaboard Air Line Railway; catalog of wrecks on lines leading to Hamlet during the 1880s and 1890s; and catalog of remarks on individual telegraphers on various North Carolina railroads. Also includes descriptions of his boyhood in Raleigh, N.C.; sketches of members of his family; vignettes of Raleigh friends, acquaintances, and relations; accounts of local Civil War events; events of the post-war years including the removal of Confederate dead from various sites to a specially reserved burial ground, rise of Ku Klux Klan, and confrontations by and with the freedmen.

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North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist

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SNAC Resource ID: 8051307

North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist

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Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)

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Whiting family.

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Whiting, David Brainard, 1852-1922

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Railroad agent and employee and telegrapher, of Raleigh and Hamlet, N.C. From the description of Reminiscences, 1916. (North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist). WorldCat record id: 70955943 ...