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Confederate Veteran Letters From Rome and Stillman Reflections
Billarps letter recalls Sam Davis and David C. Dodd graves, Rome pioneers, and local memory of vanished population. He laments time, family travel, and aging neighbors while critiquing Stillman Institute outcomes for Black education and a New York preacher's call to reenslave Black people, urging farming and restraint on abolitionist funds.
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Nashville
A. Cunningham
Sam Davis
William M. Formby
Lewisville
Ark
David C. Dodd
General Steel
Sai
Atlanta
Cass County
Texas
Little Rock
Rome
Jessie
T. W. Alexander
Alexander
Sloan
Shorter
Dr. Battey
Dr. Underwood
Jake Herndon
Big John
Coosa
Jake
Courthouse Hill
Banqno
Lilly
Stillman Institute For
Tuscaloosa
Presbyterian General Assembly
Stillman's
Booker Washington
North
Presbyterian Church
Georgia
Henry Frank
New York Metropolitan
Herod
Henry Ward Beecher
New England