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Family Papers, 1833-1902 (bulk 1840-1881).
Primarily correspondence between various Croom Family members and their friends from 1840-1900. Of particular interest are the letters from Stephens Croom to his parents and sister during the Civil War. Also includes a journal kept by Stephens Croom during the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., and student essays written by him at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1856-1859).
The Croom Family and Goodwood Plantation
One of the most elegant mansions in Florida, Goodwood was built over a century ago and stands today as one of Tallahassee's grandest historical monuments. It was once the center of a thriving plantation founded by the Croom family of North Carolina, who in the 1820s sought to revive their fortunes in the newly opened Florida territory. William Warren Rogers and Erica R. Clark tell the story of this family and their legacy, shedding new light on many aspects of antebellum family life, plantation management, and race relations. They describe how brothers Hardy and Bryan Croom developed Goodwood Plantation to over four thousand acres with nearly two hundred slaves before Hardy and his family were killed in a shipwreck, and how a twenty-year lawsuit, complicated by questions of survivorship and residency, denied Bryan control of the estate. This meticulously detailed account, drawing extensively on family correspondence and court records, is a story of humaneness, hard work, and family values—but also of selfishness and greed—that reveals an intriguing chapter of southern history.
The Private Life of a New South Lawyer
Croom's Journal is remarkable for the skill with which the author describes the legal, political and literary circles in which he moved. It is a rare and personally revealing document. Some of Croom's views - on social and radical matters, particularly - will affront modern readers, but it is impossible to understand Croom's world without taking them into consideration.
Staff Officers in Gray
This indispensable Civil War reference profiles some 2,300 staff officers in Robert E. Lee's famous Army of Northern Virginia. These men--ordnance officers, engineers, aides-de-camp, and quartermasters, among others--worked at the side of many of the Confederacy's greatest figures, helping to feed and clothe the army, maintain its discipline, and operate its military machinery. A typical entry includes the officer's full name, the date and place of his birth and death, details of his education and occupation, and a synopsis of his military record. An introduction discusses the role of staff officers in the Confederate army, describes the evolution and importance of individual staff positions, and makes some broad generalizations about the officers' common characteristics. Two appendixes provide a list of more than 3,000 staff officers who served in other armies of the Confederacy and complete rosters of known staff officers of each general in the Army of Northern Virginia. Synthesizing the contents of thousands of unpublished official documents, Staff Officers in Gray will be of interest to anyone studying the battles, personnel, and organization of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Wade Keyes' Introductory Lecture to the Montgomery Law School
An example of the legal thought of his time, Mr. Keyes' lecture deals with questions of legal ethics, the place of lawyers in society, and the historical and philosophical roots of the legal profession.
A War State All Over
An in-depth political study of Alabama’s government during the Civil War Alabama’s military forces were fierce and dedicated combatants for the Confederate cause.In his study of Alabama during the Civil War, Ben H. Severance argues that Alabama’s electoral and political attitudes were, in their own way, just as unified in their support for the cause of southern independence. To be sure, the civilian populace often expressed unease about the conflict, as did a good many of Alabama’s legislators, but the majority of government officials and military personnel displayed pronounced Confederate loyalty and a consistent willingness to accept a total war approach in pursuit of their new nat...
