Abstract:
This is the sixth installment of a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to Massachusetts Congressman and Governor Benjamin Franklin Butler between December 5, 1870 and March 28, 1874. The letters included here are from John F. Alexander, W.F. Henderson, S.W. Bright, G.M. Arnold, Minerva Tilley, William S. Ball, E.A. Smith, Henry Covert, R.W. Lassiter, Vernon Asbury, Mary Sinclair, Joseph C. Abbott, B.G. Credle, W.F. Davidson, W.W. Holden, John M. Morris, Thomas B. Keogh, A.Q. Moore, Charles Carrol, William Sohier, St. Clair Dearing, A.F. Rockefeller, Ed R. Brink, and E.M. Rosafy. Some biographical information on the authors of the letters is included in the footnotes and responses from Butler are included where available.