Title: Disunion, war, defeat, and recovery in Alabama
First published: 2007
Description: This is the journal from 1850 until his death in the mid 1880s of Augustus Benners of Greensboro, Alabama.  He was a lawyer, planter and legislator.  The entries tell of life in western Alabama during the Antebellum, war period and Reconstruction from the viewpoint of a well to do man.  His family troubles and good times are all there.  It is a very interesting look at life in Alabama during those periods.
Subjects: Reconstruction, Civil War, Greensboro, planter, cotton, Alabama
Places: Greensboro, Montgomery, Blount Springs, Alabama, Washington, D. C. Boston, Ma.
People: Augustus Benners, Alfred Benners, Willie Benners, Fannie Benners
Time periods: 1850 to 1880s Alabama
LC classification: F