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Dinner and a Debate on Secession in Alabama
In a Charleston inspired tension, Peyton family members and guests at Judge Annan’s dinner clash over secession. Judge Annan opposes immediate exit from the Union while Governor Peyton and others push for Alabama to join South Carolina, foreshadowing the coming Civil War and testing loyalties between family, love, and state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Peyton
Boyd
Ittle
Tempe Annan
Willis
United States
Abe Lincoln
Colonel Peyton
Wills
Pluk
Mary Annan
Pink
Jove
Alabama
DBD
Royd
Father
Peyton
Sokrce
Currton
Johu Hanevouk
Massachusetts
Judge Annan
Lincoln
North
South Carolina
Union
Alexander H. Stephens
Georgia
Henry A. Wise
Virginia
South
United States Service
Lie
Alaintiana
Bermaise
Unite Siates
Lin
Ife
Oen
Till
Aye
Lis Sweethewitt
Mary Agim
Ale
Hiro
Bob Darrow
Mary Auncan
Darrow
Darren
Tempe
Alabam
Hver
Aminndale
Miss Pinkie
Annindale House
Gema
Mary
Pinkie Peyton
Boyd Peyton
Sit Darrew
Jones Withers
Mobile
Montgomery
Leyton
George Ridmoney
Grace Church
Lueien Venosste
Francisco Mendiota
Owen Hudson
Carolina
Senor Mendiota
Baupney
West Point
Abraham Lincoln
Venosste
Judson
Nndge
Studge
Jude
Aa Man
Alaina
Colonel Payton
Hudson
the Methodist Church South
Aouth
Bampney
Mendiota
Europe
Conel Peyton