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The Papers of William Woods Holden. Volume I: 1841-1868. Edited by Horace W. Raper and Thornton W. Mitchell. (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2000. Pp. 1, 457. $40.00, ISBN 0-86526-292-6.)
No North Carolina political figure invoked a wider spectrum of political opinions in the nineteenth century than did William W. Holden. he was, by turns, a Calhoun Democrat, an opponent of secession, a backer of Confederate colonel Zebuion B. Vance for wartime governor in 1862, a peace candidate who ran against Vance in 1864, an ally of Andrew Johnson, and then a Radical Republican who openly campaigned for black votes. all that was...