Taken from Dent's journals, this book explores the world of this wealthy planter and landholder.. In 1837, when he came, to the newly opened Alabama frontier with his young wife and her 35 slaves, he had the building of an agrarian dynasty in mind, but his ambition was thwarted by the Civil War.
Ray Mathis (1937-1981) was a professor in the department of History at Troy State University. He is editor of In the Land of the Living: Wartime Letters by Confederates from the Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia and Pilgrimage to Madison: Correspondence Concerning the Georgia Party's Inspection of the University of Wisconsin, November 22-23, 1904.
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