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Powell, Mrs. John
Race relations. See Blacks; Slavery
Reconstruction, political: in Tennessee; federal policy on; in Mississippi
Refugees
Roane County, Tennessee: conditions in; description of; Confederate river raid in
Robertson, Allen
Robertson, James
Robertson, John: early life of; goals and character of; in Greene County; wartime religious activities of; Confederate patriotism of; as Confederate soldier and home guardsman; does farm work; education of; skills of; attempted murder of; in Knoxville and Knox County; and Southern unionists during war; as schoolteacher; travels to and from Roane County; religious conversion of; comments on Northerners; and blacks; and Margaret Tennessee Robertson (Tennie); postwar religious activities of; and Southern unionists after war; decides to flee east Tennessee; travels to Iowa; in Iowa; later life of. See also East Tennessee; Roane County, Tennessee
Robertson, Margaret Tennessee (Tennie)
Rockbridge County, Virginia. See Lexington and Rockbridge County, Virginia
Salt. See also Alabama state salt works
Sharkey, William L.
Sherman, William T.
Slavery: blacks’ behavior under; and Confederate army; efforts of whites to maintain; in Panola County; at salt works; in east Tennessee; and Union army; in Lexington and Rockbridge County; on Agnew plantation; collapse of. See also Blacks
Springfield, Iowa
Susan (cook)
Tennessee, political reconstruction of. See also Brownlow, William G.; Chattanooga, Tennessee; East Tennessee; Knoxville, Tennessee; Memphis, Tennessee; Middle Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Roane County, Tennessee
Tennie. See Robertson, Margaret Tennessee
Tillson, Davis
Tippah County, Mississippi: disruption and crime in; privation in; Union army raids in; description of; Confederate troops in; local government in; sickness in; black uprising scare in; poor-white restlessness in
Tubbs, C. Jerome
Union army: occupies west and middle Tennessee; destruction and impressment by; occupies Lexington; raids Shenandoah Valley; occupies east Tennessee; raids northern Mississippi; and slaves; moves against Mobile; hard-war policy of; black soldiers of; occupies Mississippi after war; soldiers of, return home; and freed blacks; postwar Southern hostility toward
Unionists, Southern: harassed by secessionists; vilify and harass secessionists during war; in Knoxville; organize relief association; vilify and harass secessionists after war. See also Brownlow, William G.
United States army. See Union army
Virginia. See Lexington and Rockbridge County, Virginia
Virginia Military Institute
Walker, Thomas A.
Washington College
Whillock, George
Woolsey, Benjamin
Young, James L.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen V. Ash is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Firebrand of Liberty, A Year in the South, and other books on the Civil War era. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue: Four Southerners
PART ONE: WINTER
Louis Hughes
Cornelia McDonald
John Robertson
Samuel Agnew
PART TWO: SPRING
Samuel Agnew
John Robertson
Cornelia McDonald
Louis Hughes
PART THREE: SUMMER
Louis Hughes
Samuel Agnew
Cornelia McDonald
John Robertson
PART FOUR: FALL AND ANOTHER WINTER
John Robertson
Cornelia McDonald
Louis Hughes
Samuel Agnew
Epilogue: 1866 and Beyond
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Copyright
A YEAR IN THE SOUTH: FOUR LIVES IN 1865
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