Record #:

20045

Author(s):

Padgett, James A.

Abstract:

This is a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to John Sherman, a Congressman and Senator from Ohio who later served as Secretary of the Treasury under Rutherford B. Hays and Secretary of State under William McKinley, and was the author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The letters included in this installment were written between January 19, 1865 and March 14, 1867 and were from David Heaton, Ben Higgins, William B. Reid, J. Lewis, David F. Caldwell, William Woods Holden, L.E. Jones, and William E. Hill. Some biographical information on the letters' authors is included in the footnotes.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 3, July 1941, p278-300, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Letters