Benjamin Franklin Grady

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Benjamin Franklin Grady (pronounced "Graddy") (10 October 1831 – 6 March 1914) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1857. Serving with the Confederacy during the War Between the States, he was captured by Northern forces and imprisoned at Springfield, Illinois where he suffered at the hands of sadistic prison guards and severe cold. He was exchanged for Northern prisoners in 1862 and served in many engagements until typhoid fever put him in the hospital in early 1864. He later served as Superintendent of Public Instruction for Duplin County and U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1890-1894. He authored several books on Southern history, including The Case of the South Against the North (1899), and The South's Burden: The Curse of Sectionalism (1906).