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Author Strom, Sharon Hartman.

Title Confederates in the tropics : Charles Swett's travelogue of 1868 / Sharon Hartman Strom and Frederick Stirton Weaver
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 169 p.)
Contents pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The diaries -- pt. 3. Community failures, black migration, and Charles Swift after 1868
Summary Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. After the war some of Swe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-164) and index
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Subject Swett, Charles, 1828-1910 -- Travel -- Belize
Swett, Charles, 1828-1910 -- Travel -- Honduras
White people -- Southern States -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Emigration and immigration
Travel
White people -- Attitudes
SUBJECT Belize -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013013
Honduras -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061822
Southern States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
Subject Belize
Honduras
Southern States
Genre/Form Electronic book
History
Form Electronic book
Author Weaver, Frederick Stirton, 1939-
Swett, Charles, 1828-1910. A trip to British Honduras and to San Pedro, Republic of Honduras
LC no. 2021695010
ISBN 9781604739947
1604739940
9781583919699
1583919694
9781628468007
1628468009
128311660X
9781283116602