In 1858 , Donelson sold Tulip Grove and moved to Memphis , Tennessee . He participated primarily in local politics there , although he was a delegate to the Constitutional Union party 's national nominating convention , which nominated his old Tennessee nemesis , John Bell , as its presidential candidate . During the Civil War , Donelson was harassed by both sides of the conflict . He also lost two of his sons in the war . During Reconstruction , he split time between his Memphis home and his plantation in Bolivar County , Mississippi . In his correspondence with his wife , he groused about the need to pay wages to African American workers who had once been slaves . He died at the Peabody Hotel , Memphis , Tennessee and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery
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