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42. SAA, 18 October, 2, 4, 11 November, 6, 8, 13, 15 December 1865.
43. Ibid., 9, 24, 30 October, 6, 12, 21, 29 November, 6, 9, 14, 19, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 December 1865; Ash, When the Yankees Came, 178–80, 234–35.
44. SAA, 10, 22 October, 15, 20, 22, 23 November, 14 December 1865; Tennessee Almanac 1865.
45. SAA, 24 November 1865.
46. Ibid., 11 October, 8, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, 24, 27 November 1865; Gray, History of Agriculture, 2:703–705.
47. SAA, 20 October, 2, 13, 14, 27, 28 November, 4, 6 December 1865.
48. Ibid., 8, 13, 14, 16 December 1865.
49. Ibid., 21, 22 December 1865.
50. Ibid., 3 November, 5–8, 15, 27 December 1865.
51. Ibid., 19 December 1865; Foner, Reconstruction, 228–47.
52. Harris, Presidential Reconstruction in Mississippi, 140, 141, 152; Carter, When the War Was Over, 191–202, 217, 226–31; Foner, Reconstruction, 216–27.
53. SAA, 25 December 1863, 26 December 1864, 22, 25 December 1865; Roark, Masters Without Slaves, 143–47, 196–203.
54. SAA, 19, 26–29 December 1865.
55. Ibid., 26–31 December 1865.
56. Ibid., 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 26, 29, 30 December 1865.
57. Ibid., 31 December 1865.
58. Ibid.; Ray A. King, A History of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (Charlotte, 1966), 44, 99, 112.
59. SAA, 31 December 1865.
EPILOGUE
1. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, 1: 288; Centennial History, 42–44, 416; Agnew, “Battle of Tishomingo Creek,” 401–403.
2. SAA, 22, 24 July 1868, 5, 6 November 1869, 21 April 1870, 23 April 1876; Ninth Census, 1870, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Tippah County, Mississippi, p. 267.
3. SAA, 1866–1902, passim, esp. 27 January, 1, 24 February, 19 April, 7 May 1866, 2 March 1867, 1 January, 1 October 1869, 27 April 1874, 29 January, 3 February 1875; Ninth Census, 1870, Manuscript Returns of Productions of Agriculture, Tippah County, Mississippi, Township 6, Range 5, National Archives, Washington; Tenth Census, 1880, Manuscript Returns of Productions of Agriculture, Union County, Mississippi, Township 6, Range 5, National Archives, Washington; Tenth Census, 1880, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Union County, Mississippi, p. 11/314, National Archives, Washington.
4. Agnew, Historical Sketch, 9, 11, 14, 20–21, 24, 25; SAA, 4 January, 2 March, 30 December 1873, 2 August 1874.
5. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, 1:288; “Rev. Samuel Andrew Agnew,” unpublished typescript in Brice’s Crossroads Museum and Visitors Center, Baldwyn, Mississippi; Twelfth Census, 1900, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Union County, Mississippi, ED 128, Sheet 13.
6. Centennial History, 44; Ripley (Mississippi) Southern Sentinel, 24 July 1902.
7. JCR, 240–418.
8. Ibid., unnumbered initial page, 1, 417.
9. Ibid., 418; Fisher, War at Every Door, 154, 164.
10. JCR, 166, 178, 194, 276–77, 314–16, 392–93, 404, 412–13, 418.
11. Patsy Pierce, comp., Marriage Records, Roane County, Tennessee, 1856–1880 (n.p., 1987), 68; pension record of George W. Wester, 3rd Tennessee Cavalry (U.S.), Civil War Pension Files.
12. History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas (Chicago, 1889), 1011–12; Catalogue of the Officers, Trustees and Students of Shurtleff College, for the Year 1870–71 (Alton, Ill., 1871; copy in Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield).
13. Shelia Steele Hunt, transcriber, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1863–1893 (Kingsport, Tenn., 1997), 140; Ninth Census, 1870, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Madison County, Illinois, Upper Alton post office, family 140.
14. History of Benton, 1011–12; Eighth Census, 1860, Manuscript Returns of Free Inhabitants, Copiah County, Mississippi, pp. 60–61; Ninth Census, 1870, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Copiah County, Mississippi, p. 113; Tenth Census, 1880, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Benton County, Arkansas, p. 367.
15. History of Benton, 1011–12; Barbara Pickering Easley and Verla Pickering McAnelly, eds., Obituaries of Washington County, Arkansas, 4 vols. (Bowie, Md., 1996–98), 2:159, 4:90–91.
16. Pension record of George W. Wester, 3rd Tennessee Cavalry (U. S.), Civil War Pension Files.
17. History of Benton, 1011–12.
18. Ibid.; Easley and McAnelly, Obituaries of Washington County, 4:90–91.
19. CPM, 271, photograph facing 414; Ninth Census, 1870, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Rockbridge County, Virginia, p. 21/468.
20. CPM, 264n, 271, 271n, 414–28; Williams, Glengarry McDonalds, 265–68, 275, 286–88.
21. CPM, 270–71, 270n.
22. Ibid., photograph facing 271, 272–75; Lee, Memoirs, 428; Hunter McDonald, “General Lee After Appomattox,” Tennessee Historical Magazine 9 (1925): 94–95.
23. CPM, ix, 7–8, 271n, 404; Williams, Glengarry McDonalds, 287.
24. CPM, 9, 413–33.
25. LH, 195–99.
26. Ibid., 197, 199–200, 205–206; Milwaukee City Directory, annual editions (Milwaukee, 1869–79).
27. LH, 197–98, 205; Twelfth Census, 1900, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ED 194, Sheet 4; Milwaukee Sentinel, 20 January 1913.
28. LH, 196–97, 201–204.
29. Ibid., 206, 208.
30. Ibid., 208–209; Milwaukee City Directory, annual editions (Milwaukee, 1880–84); Wright’s Directory of Milwaukee, annual editions (Milwaukee, 1885–92, 1900–01).
31. LH, 3.
32. Ibid., 3, 79, 119, 189–90, 209–10.
33. Ibid., 206–208, 209; Interment Records, Hughes family plot, Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee; Thirteenth Census, 1910, Manuscript Returns of Inhabitants, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ED 233, Sheet 11, National Archives, Washington; Milwaukee Journal, 20 January 1913; Milwaukee Sentinel, 20 January 1913; Milwaukee Free Press, 20 January 1913.
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