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Eleanor Hope Swain Atkins

1842–1881 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Undaunted heart : the true story of a Southern belle & a Yankee general

Barile, Suzy · 2009

Suzy Barile's account of Eleanor Hope Swain, daughter of the University of North Carolina's president, and Smith D. Atkins, the Union general whose troops occupied Chapel Hill in April 1865; the two married later that year. Published by Eno in Hillsborough in 2009, 237 pages with illustrations and portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Atkins, Eleanor Hope Swain, 1842-1881.

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