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41 Title:   C. P. Lacey diary and cased image  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lacey, C. P.  
  Dates:   1864  
  Contents:  
The collection consists of a Civil War diary of C. P. Lacey from January-November 1864. Lacey writes of frequent battles, including Resaca, Georgia, and of approaching and battling towards Atlanta, Georgia. The collection also includes a cased photograph on glass of Lacey as an older man.
 
  Identifier:   ms3586  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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42 Title:   Amos Guthrie diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Guthrie, Amos, approximately 1844-1864  
  Dates:   1864  
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The collection consists of three manuscripts, written in the form of a detailed diary, signed "Amos Guthrie," dated May 9, 1864-May 31, 1864. Guthrie writes about marching through Chickamauga Creek, Tunnel Hill, Ringgold, Dalton, Big Blue Spring, Cassville, and Dallas, Georgia. Diary entries mention different infantries, General Sherman, Johnston, rumors, positions, and the weather. The collection also includes a transcript of the manuscripts.
 
  Identifier:   ms3635  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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43 Title:   William Cooper diary and ledger  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Cooper, William  
  Dates:   1852-1867  
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The collection consists of a diary and ledger of William Cooper from 1857-1860, regarding court sessions, daily expenses and purchases, Cooper's plantation, and a trip to Texas. The ledger lists legal cases of Cooper & Norton for the years 1852-1867.
 
  Identifier:   ms3644  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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44 Title:   Robert G. Stephens, Jr. collection of Clement Anselm Evans material  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Stephens, Robert G. (Robert Grier), 1913-  
  Dates:   1830-1904  
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The collection consists of diaries, speeches and an autograph book of Clement A. Evans. The first diary is inscribed "C.A. Evans, 31st Georgia Regiment, Gordon's Brigade, Early's Division, Ewell's Corps." The beginning of the diary is a ledger used to keep accounts of regimental supplies from 1862-1863, and includes some sketches. The second part transitions into a full diary about Evans' daily experiences in the war during 1864. Final pages of the diary include a handwritten roster of students of Law School, Augusta, Georgia, 1833-1859. The second diary contains a list of fees and commissions of C.A. Evans, Stewart County, Georgia, dated 1860-1861. The diary also contains entries regarding Atlanta Trinity Church, 1871-1874. The diaries dated 1903-1904 are rather extraordinary in design. Clement A. Evans, Sarah Lee Evans, and Lucy Evans all write on the same page for each day. Some of their notes mention each other. Sarah Lee and Lucy write more about Sunday school and home life, and Clement writes about state business and anniversaries of Confederate leaders and Civil War battles. In January 1904, Clements comments extensively on General John Brown Gordon's illness, death, and funeral. Likewise, he talks about his visits with Stephen Dill Lee. The family does split up throughout the year, with Clement staying in Augusta and the girls staying in Atlanta. Clement often discusses business with the Board of Pardon Commission. The collection also consists of The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution, published in 1858; two oration books; and an autograph book. The autograph book contains autographs of federal governmental officials, secretaries, Supreme Court officials, congressmen, and territorial delegates. Some names include Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy W. Hayes, M.R. Waite, Stephen J. Field, Joseph P. Bradley, John M. Harlan, Alexander H. Stephens, Eppa Hunton, and George C. Cabell.
 
  Identifier:   ms3664  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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45 Title:   William Coleman Hardman ledgers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hardman, William Coleman, 1860-1940  
  Dates:   1890-1940  
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The collection consists of farm accounts that consist of one-line entry for each day stating the farm activities, family news, and weather. also included are farm accounts with tenant expenses and purchases for the farm. There are also loose bills, receipts, and some correspondence.
 
  Identifier:   ms3715  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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46 Title:   Abram Rinker diaries  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Rinker, Abram  
  Dates:   1863-1864  
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The collection consists of two diaries of Abram Rinker from 1863-1864. Rinker was stationed in Beaufort, Morris, James, and Folly Islands, South Carolina; and Ft. Strong, North Carolina. Diary entries discuss Rinker's health, the weather, camp life (drills, guard duty, foraging for food, and officers), bombardments and shelling along the coast, and ship movements. Other entries pertain to arrival of Confederate prisoners, news of battles in other states, and election results in the North.
 
  Identifier:   ms391  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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47 Title:   Sylvia Anne Moor autograph book  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Moor, Sylvia Anne, active 1931  
  Dates:   1948  
  Contents:  
Autograph book owned by Sylvia Anne Moor, Tifton High School, includes list of teachers, diary entries, and classmate signatures.
 
  Identifier:   ms4073  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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48 Title:   Daniell family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Daniell family  
  Dates:   1834-1877  
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The collection consists of five documents: explanatory note regarding the Almanac Diary and List of Deaths in Clarke County; List of Deaths in Clarke County, Georgia, 1834-1877, by William B. Daniell; three separate copies of the Almanac Diary of Josiah Daniell, Christmas Day 1849, and New Year 's Day 1850-1855.
 
  Identifier:   ms462  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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49 Title:   Robert C. Peirce diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Peirce, Robert C.  
  Dates:   1862-1863  
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The collection consists of a diary of Robert C. Peirce, Paymaster of the U.S.S.Dawn, from 1862-1863. Pierce writes about weather and activities of the U.S.S.Dawn in and around the Ogeechee River, south of Savannah, Georgia, including the islands of Ossabaw and Wassaw.
 
  Identifier:   ms793  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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50 Title:   George W. Howard diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Howard, George W.  
  Dates:   1876  
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This collection consists of George W. Howard's 1876 diary and includes short entries describing his daily life, business, trips, and weather in Barnett, Georgia.
 
  Identifier:   ms4359  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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51 Title:   Madame Rosalie de Trobriand Gouvain diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Gouvain, Rosalie de Trobriand, 1777-  
  Dates:   1835-1841  
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The collection consists of a dis-bound diary kept by Madame Rosalie de Trobriand Gouvain from 1835-1841. Gouvain writes about social life in and around Clarke County, Georgia, the management of her plantation, and her continued financial problems. The collection also includes photocopies of photographs of family members (Regis De Trobriand and Fanny Santiago), correspondence, indentures, and newspaper clippings.
 
  Identifier:   ms2918  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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52 Title:   Marcus Wayland Beck Diaries  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Beck, Marcus Wayland, 1860-1943  
  Dates:   1899-1934  
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Marcus Wayland Beck was born in Harris County, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1881. He passed the bar in 1883 and began practicing law in Jackson County. He served as a Georgia state senator, Solicitor General of the Flint Circuit and judge for the same circuit. After fighting in the Spanish American War, he returned to Georgia and was appointed as associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. He was eventually appointed as the presiding judge, a position he maintained until he retired in 1937. The Marcus W. Beck Diaries reflect his day to day personal and judicial activities as Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1905-1937) and as Presiding Justice (1917-1937).
 
  Identifier:   RBRL150MWB  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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53 Title:   R.T. Trible diary and Bible  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Trible, Richard Thomas, 1822-1894  
  Dates:   1836-1865  
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This collection includes a diary or planting journal of Richard Thomas Trible, and a Bible given to him with family information in the back pages. The diary includes information on planting, activites of the enslaved population, visits to the Georgia Factory, Col. Billups, Mr. Dearing, and Dr. Morton.
 
  Identifier:   ms4542  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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54 Title:   Eugene LeHardy diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   LeHardy, Eugene, -1874  
  Dates:   1851-1853  
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The collection consists of a diary of Eugene LeHardy, written at Rome, Georgia, from 1851 to 1853. Written entirely in French, LeHardy details his work surveying a railroad line between Rome, Georgia and Jacksonville, Alabama, probably the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company. Also includes comments on business affairs, farming and gardening, fruit growing, weather, and an interesting passage on an exhibition of the Etowah Agricultural and Mechanical Association.
 
  Identifier:   ms1046  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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55 Title:   Edward P. Bishop daybook  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Bishop, Edward P., -1881  
  Dates:   1852-1895  
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One daybook of Edward P. Bishop from 1852, 1858-1865, containing accounts, recipes, and memoranda; telling of work done, when crops and/or gardens were planted and harvested, when and where hens were set, and when hogs were killed. Several pages in center of book were used as scratch paper for arithmetic and algebra problems. The volume also contains a few diary entries of his daughter, Mary Carleton Bishop Talmadge (1895).
 
  Identifier:   ms113  
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56 Title:   John Phillips diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Phillips, John, active 1853  
  Dates:   1853  
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The collection consists of a diary of John Phillips from January-December 1853. Entries describe Phillips' visits to Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York, trips back to Savannah, Georgia, daily activities at the brickyard, business transactions, the weather, and social activities.
 
  Identifier:   ms1463  
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57 Title:   James Barrow collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Barrow, James, 1757-1828  
  Dates:   circa 1818-1890  
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The collection consists of two portions of James Barrow's diary (the first portion, dated 1818, is a photocopy of the original pages), his will, a handwritten copy of his will, and three photograph albums. The photograph albums contain cabinet cards of public figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
 
  Identifier:   ms1707  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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58 Title:   Emma LeConte Furman journals  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   LeConte, Emma  
  Dates:   1900  
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The collection consists of two journals kept by Emma LeConte Furman while traveling with her father, Joseph LeConte, in the California High Sierras from June 7, 1900 - September 22, 1900. The journals contain detailed descriptions of geography, plants and animals seen on the expedition, as well as a day-by-day account of the journey.
 
  Identifier:   ms2215  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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59 Title:   Ernie E. Williams World War II diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Williams, Ernie E.  
  Dates:   1942-1945  
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The collection consists of an unbound diary with entries describing life on board U.S.S. Dorothea L. Dix, transporting U.S. troops to Europe, submarine attacks, battles involving Dorothea L. Dix, various ports and countries, and Williams' duties as a gunner's mate. Also included is a list of locations and dates U.S.S. Dorothea L. Dix departed from and arrived at from September 25, 1942-November 8, 1944.
 
  Identifier:   ms2279  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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60 Title:   Perry J. Shearouse World War II papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Shearouse, Perry J.  
  Dates:   1944-1946  
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The collection consists of two diaries kept while serving with the 363rd Engineer Regiment of the U.S. Army during World War II. Shearouse describes details of India and Iran, as well as his daily duties, his return to the United States after the war ended, then life in Savannah, Georgia. Also included is a photograph and two letters to his sister, Lillian Anderson.
 
  Identifier:   ms2300  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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