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Letter
Recipient of this letter is presumed to be Lieutenant Thomas Waring Mikell (1837-1893) of South Carolina [son of William Archibald Mikell (1815-1840) and Jane Yates Mikell (1840-1910)].
George C. Tillman
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Speech of Hon. George N. Tillman, Republican Candidate for Governor of Tennessee
George N. Tillman discusses his opinions about the governance of the state of Tennessee, and campaigns for his own policies in the 1896 election race. He discusses the Dortch Law and the Money Question. He includes his opinions of the leadership of Democratic Gov. Robert L. Taylor. A brief biographical sketch is included in the pamphlet, as well as news articles from favorable Tennessee newspapers concerning Tillman's bid for governor.
In My Father's House Are Many Mansions
Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were strikingly similar. Wealth, rather than race or class, was the main factor that influenced family structure, and the matriarchal family was but a myth.
Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian
The definitive biography of a controversial South Carolina leader Upon its initial publication in 1944, Pitchfork Ben Tillman was a signal event in the writing of modern South Carolina history. In a biography the Journal of Southern History called "definitive," Francis Butler Simkins, a South Carolinian and Columbia University-educated historian, brings his research skills and professional dispassion to bear upon a study of one of the state's most controversial political leaders. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) accomplished a political revolution in South Carolina when he defeated Governor Wade Hampton and the old guard Bourbons who had run the state since the end of Reconstruction. Tillma...
