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[Identification of item], in the Robert Archelaus Hardaway Recollections, #3006, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Alabama--Biography.
• Alabama--Genealogy.
• Auburn University--Faculty--Social life and customs.
• Autobiographies--Alabama.
• Central Railroad (Mexico)
• Children--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• College students--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
• College students--Georgia--Social life and customs--19th century.
• College teachers--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Emory College--Students--Social life and customs.
• Hardaway, Robert Archelaus, b. 1829.
• Mexican War, 1846-1848.
• Mobile and Girard Railroad Company.
• Plantation owners--Alabama.
• Railroad engineers--Mexico--History--19th century.
• Railroads--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Railroads--Mexico--History--19th century.
• St. Joseph's College (Ala.)--Students--Social life and customs--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States. Army--Military life.
• University of Alabama--Faculty--Social life and customs.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections of Hardaway, born in Georgia and raised in Alabama; educated at St. Joseph's College, Ala., and Emory College, Ga.; with the United States Army in Mexico; superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad; Alabama planter; Confederate artillery officer in Virginia; engineering professor at Auburn University, 1873-1881, and at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897; and engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. Also included are family histories and articles relating to various phases of Hardaway's life.