A Yankee in a Confederate Town: A Journal of Calvin L. Ro...
Robinson, Calvin L. / Gunn, Thomas H. / Clancy, Anne Robinson
During the Civil War, Calvin L. Robinson was a successful businessman in Jacksonville, Florida, transplanted from his native state of Vermont. Loyal to the Union and finding slave-holding repugnant, he refused to join the secessionist movement in the South. Targeted for his open sympathies for the Union, he would eventually lose his sawmills, his warehouse, his cash, and even his home. In this journal, which he kept during that critical period...