Eliza Frances Bradley Kenney family letters, 1853-1881

Summary

Creator:
Bradley family
Date:
1853-1881
Extent:
0.25 Linear Feet 1 box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Eliza Frances Bradley Kenney family letters, ms3343, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of correspondence, mainly addressed to Eliza Frances Bradley Kenney, from 1853-1881. Correspondents include John Robertson, Rusk County, Texas; Susan Bradley, Walton County, Georgia; James Bradley, Richmond, Virginia and Camp Cooper, Macon, Georgia; F.M. Bradley, Yorktown, Virginia; W.J. Hale, Camp Lamar, Yorktown; E.F. Kenney, Rusk County, Texas; Mary J. Phillips, Milton County, Georgia; Mary Jamerson, Milton County, Georgia; R.A. Bell, Forsyth County, Georgia; William Bell, Forsyth County, Georgia; and Mollie Bradley. Correspondence concerns health of family members, marriages, deaths, the war (fear of the ongoing fighting, firing in Atlanta, the Roswell Factory, hearing cannons in Ringgold and Tunnel Hill, prisoners), illnesses (including smallpox and measles), and crops (including cotton, wheat, and corn). The collection also includes a handwritten will and testament of John J.N. Kenney, an envelope postmarked 1881, family tree of Eliza Frances Bradley Kenney, and a page from the Kenney family bible.

Biographical / historical:

Every male member of Eliza Frances Bradley Kenney's extended family that was of age served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. John James N. Kenney, Company G, Georgia 1st Infantry Regiment, died at Crampton's Gap, Maryland. Francis Marion Bradley, Company B, 16th Infantry Regiment, Georgia, died of illnesses in Fredericksburg, Virginia. James M. Bradley, released from a POW camp, took his brother Francis' body home from Virginia.

Custodial history:

Gift of Lynne S. Wilcox.

Access and use restrictions

Preferred citation:

Eliza Frances Bradley Kenney family letters, ms3343, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.