A Year in the South (51 page)

Authors: Stephen V. Ash

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Agnew, Enoch: background of; as physician; and Union troops; wartime plantation activities of; and slaves; and freed blacks; postwar plantation activities of; travels to Memphis; illness of; mentioned

Agnew, Letitia

Agnew, Nannie: marries; pregnancy and delivery of; visits in neighborhood; tends baby; visits family; death of; mentioned

Agnew, Samuel: early life of; character and habits of; marriage, fatherhood, and domestic life of; Confederate patriotism of; comments on war news; and Union troops; wartime ministry of; concerned about food supply; wartime plantation activities of; and slaves; raises poppies; hosts wounded soldier; observes collapse of Confederacy; comments on emancipation and freed blacks; postwar plantation activities of; raises tobacco; comments on political reconstruction; postwar ministry of; comments on sickness; loses horse; witnesses exhumation of corpse; comments on black uprising scare; notes poor-white restlessness; observes departure of blacks; later life of.
See also
Tippah County, Mississippi

Alabama state salt works

Anderson, Alfred

Black Code

Blacks: behavior of, as slaves; emancipation of; and Union army during war; in Lexington and Rockbridge County; John Robertson's opinion of; in Knoxville; as Union soldiers; on Agnew plantation; enlisted by Confederate army; and Union army after war; postwar attempts of whites to control; in Memphis; postwar goals and activities of; postwar white hostility toward; and Freedmen's Bureau; and Northern missionaries; in Ohio; and uprising scare.
See also
Slavery

Blue Springs Church

Boss.
See
McGehee, Edmund

Brice's Crossroads, battle of

Brooks, N. S.

Brown, John

Brownlow, William G.

Canada

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chicago, Illinois

Cincinnati, Ohio

Collier, Thomas

Como, Mississippi.
See
Panola County, Mississippi

Confederate army: in northern Mississippi; and slaves; in east Tennessee; impressment and destruction by; defends Shenandoah Valley; conscription by; desertion from; condition of; defeat and surrender of; soldiers of, return home

Confederate States of America: disintegration and collapse of; impressment and taxation by; morale in; enlists slaves

Dailey, Mrs.

Davis, Jefferson

Deaver, Thomas

Early, Jubal

East Tennessee: slavery and emancipation in; wartime unionist-secessionist conflict in; Confederate army in; Union army occupies; privation, danger, and disruption in; Confederate river raid in; postwar unionist-secessionist conflict in.
See also
Chattanooga, Tennessee; Knoxville, Tennessee; Roane County, Tennessee

Emancipation.
See
Blacks, emancipation of

Farrington, Mary

Federal army.
See
Union army

Forrest, Nathan Bedford

Fredonia Methodist Church

Freedmen.
See
Blacks

Freedmen's Bureau: in Memphis; in Mississippi; in Lexington

Garnet, Henry Highland

George (slave)

Grace Episcopal Church

Grant, Ulysses S.: and Cornelia McDonald; during war; after war; mentioned

Hamilton, Ohio

Hughes, Louis: early life of; and Edmund McGehee (Boss); habits, character, and appearance of; and Sarah McGehee (Madam); skills and duties of; failed escape attempts of; hates slavery and desires freedom; marriage and children of; in Memphis; in Panola County; at salt works; as nurse; and religion; and John McGehee (Master Jack); escapes from slavery; rescues family from slavery; in Cincinnati; in Hamilton; in Canada; later life of; reunites with brother

Hughes, Matilda: early life of; marriage of; skills and duties of; escape attempts of; children of; character of; treatment of, by owners; reunites with mother; later life of; mentioned

Humphreys, Benjamin G.

Hunter, David

Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall)

Johnson, Andrew

Kitty (slave)

Knoxville, Tennessee

Lee, Robert E.: as wartime commander; retreat and surrender of; after war; mentioned

Letcher, John

Lexington and Rockbridge County, Virginia: Cornelia McDonald moves to; occupied by Union army in 1864; description of; wartime conditions in; slavery and emancipation in; deserters in; postwar conditions in; occupied by Union army after war; Northern merchants and teachers in; postwar race relations in; Episcopal church controversy in; Freedmen's Bureau in; Robert E. Lee in

Lincoln, Abraham

McDonald, Allan: described; helps mother; takes work; sees Robert E. Lee; leaves Lexington; later life of

McDonald, Angus: early life of; captured by Union army; illness and death of; wartime service of; mentioned

McDonald, Cornelia: early life of; and Angus McDonald; character and habits of; children of; refugees to Lexington; and religion; Winchester home of; emotional difficulties of; financial difficulties of; hires cook; Lexington house of; friends and benefactors of; clothes family; takes work; feeds family; Confederate patriotism of; attitude of, toward Northerners; injures foot; and Robert E. Lee; later life of.
See also
Lexington and Rockbridge County, Virginia

McDonald, Donald

McDonald, Edward

McDonald, Harry: character and strength of; takes work; helps mother; joins army; aids wounded half brother; captured by Union troops; and Freedmen's Bureau agent; later life of; mentioned

McDonald, Hunter

McDonald, Kenneth

McDonald, Nelly

McDonald, Roy

McElwee, Anne and William

McGehee, Edmund (Boss): buys Louis Hughes; cruelty of; mansion of; paternalism of; death of; mentioned

McGehee, John (Master Jack): plantation of; and Louis Hughes; character and habits of; resists emancipation; mentioned

McGehee, Sarah (Madam): cruelty of; in 1865; mentioned

McGehee, William

Madam.
See
McGehee, Sarah

Master Jack.
See
McGehee, John

Memphis, Tennessee: Louis Hughes in; conditions in; Enoch Agnew in; mentioned

Middle Tennessee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Missionaries, Northern

Mississippi: postwar military occupation of; political reconstruction of; black uprising scare in; Black Code of.
See also
Panola County, Mississippi; Tippah County, Mississippi

Mullens, Newton

Nashville, Tennessee

Northern army.
See
Union army

Northerners: Cornelia McDonald's opinion of; John Robertson's opinion of; as missionaries; in Lexington.
See also
Cincinnati, Ohio; Freedmen's Bureau; Hamilton, Ohio; Reconstruction, political: federal policy on; Union army

Opium

Panola County, Mississippi: slavery in; description of; conditions in

Paxton, Madge

Payne, Reverend

Pendleton, Alexander (Sandie)

Pendleton, Ann

Pendleton, William: during war; after war

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
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