jackson at the potomac still can’t take richmond dubois baldwin kkk crackers tappan thompson lynchings poor whites baldwin britain cotton – We Saw a Grate Smoke Raise Up: Letters, Diaries, Wires from the Valley of the Late Rebellion

Day 55. April 24, 1862.

55 non-slaveholding whites referred to by the Southern gentlemen as constituting any part of what they called the South…. Thursday…