The Death of a Confederate

Arthur N. Skinner is a professor of visual arts at Eckerd College. James L. Skinner was the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Presbyterian College where he taught on the faculty for thirty-eight years and was editor of "The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South" (Georgia, 1991). The Skinner family, who are related to the Smiths by marriage, inherited the letters in this volume, along with the Smith plantation home in Roswell, in 1981.