Record #:

2844

Author(s):

Arthur, Billy

Abstract:

The marriage in 1865 of Eleanor Swain, daughter of a former governor and then UNC president David L. Swain, to Union General Smith D. Atkins, was highly controversial and divisive in the town of Chapel Hill.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 63 Issue 11, Apr 1996, p34-35, por

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Swain, David Lowry, 1801-1868; Swain, Eleanor, ca. 1843-1881