Albert Taylor Goodwyn: An Adamistic Look at the South
Author
Griffin, Frank Hastings, III
Subject
Washington and Lee University -- Honors in History
Goodwin family
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In this paper I have attempted to tell the story of the life of one man, Albert Taylor Goodwyn, and by doing so shed a small ray of light on the history of the South. Albert Goodwyn lfved from 1842 until 1931. His life spanned the periods of the Old South, and the Civil war, Reconstruction, Redemption, entrenchment and change. Henry Adams felt that one could best understand history when glimpses of the obscure and "unimportant" mixed with the pictures of the great and "important." A multitude of writers has given us pictures of the great. I offer a glimpse of the obscure -- an "Adamistic 1ook." [From Introduction]