Lt. H. C. Baldwin copybook, 1866, 1897

Summary

Creator:

Baldwin, Herbert C.

Date:

1866, 1897

Extent:

1 folder(s)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Lt. H. C. Baldwin copybook, ms2749, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of one copybook kept by Lieutenant H. C. Baldwin, containing financial ledgers and account, drafts of correspondence, and legal documents, many from the Town of Beacon Falls. Included is a testimony in a dispute between a man and two freed persons in Dahlonega, Georgia. The collection also includes a letter (written on the reverse side of a document with header: "Form of application for, and order of commital of indigent insane persons, and insane paupers to the Conn. Hospital for the Insane") concerning a debt owed to Baldwin.

Biographical / historical:

Herbert C. Baldwin was Lieutenant of the 13th Connecticut Volunteers, a battalion guarding the U. S. Mint in Dahlonega, Georgia in 1866.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Copybooks -- Georgia.
Enslaved persons -- Georgia
Slavery -- Georgia -- History.
Correspondence
Ledgers (account books)

Names:

United States Mint
United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 13th
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Preferred citation:

Lt. H. C. Baldwin copybook, ms2749, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.