Williams H. Whittemore correspondence, 1866-1867.

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Whittemore, Williams Howe, 1800-1885. Williams H. Whittemore correspondence, 1866-1867.

Williams H. Whittemore correspondence, 1866-1867.

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Letters exchanged between Rev. William H. Whittemore of Fairhaven, Connecticut, and Rev. Ebenezer Boyden of Cobham, Virginia. The men were classmates at Yale. The earliest letter described how Boyden's parish escaped the worst of the fighting in the recent war and bemoaned the effects of Reconstruction. In later letters he criticized the actions of Congress, particularly in giving blacks the right to vote. The two men had vastly different political views--Boyden approved of the secession of the southern states and felt the current federal government a fraud.

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