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William C. Towle letters
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Towle, William C., active 1830 |
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1865 |
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Two letters from Union surgeon William C. Towle written to his wife. First letter dates February 26, 1865 and details Towle's
time in Savannah with the army and the newly free enslaved people he has hired since arriving. "I am living well, I pay a
colored woman three dollars a month to cook for me, I have a man to take care of my horses and another to wait upon me..."
Second letter dates May 29, 1865 and details his time in Augusta, seeing Jeff Davis pass through the town, and his knowledge
of newly emancipated enslaved people who are told to "not consider the word Freedom as meaning Freedom from labor." Towle
ends his second letter by promising to send "a negro girl" to his wife.
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ms4092 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Cyrena Bailey Stone diary
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Stone, Cyrena Bailey, 1830-1868 |
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Dates: |
1864 |
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The collection consists of a diary belonging to Cyrena Bailey Stone, written from January-July 1864, includes descriptive
accounts of life in the South during the Civil War, slaves reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation and the probable fall
of the Confederacy, prices for food and clothing, visits to prisons and hospitals, preparations of fortifications, shellings
and cannonadings, falsified reports in Southern newspapers, diatribes towards leaders of the Confederacy especially Howell
Cobb and Jefferson Davis, the fall of towns such as Tunnel Hill, Dalton, and Resaca (Ga.), and the evacuation of Atlanta.
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ms1000 |
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Hargrett Library |
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McDowell, Talmadge, Lipscomb, and Rutherford families papers
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Talmadge, Clovis "Coke" G., 1854-1896 |
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1861-1868, undated |
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This collection contains the papers of the McDowell, Talmadge, Lipscomb, and Rutherford families including correspondence,
ledgers, Civil War documents, and a will related to the McDowell family and Clovis Talmadge; the diary of a Union soldier;
clippings; and photographs related to the Lipscomb and Rutherford families. The bulk of the collection is comprised of the
correspondence of Georgia McDowell Talmadge and her husband Clovis Talmadge during and immediately following the Civil War.
Transcriptions of the almost all of the correspondence and the will are included.
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ms4356 |
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Hargrett Library |
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