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Francis Lee Higginson letters
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Higginson, Francis Lee, 1841-1925 |
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1863 June 16-July 8 |
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The collection consists of four letters from Francis Lee Higginson to his father: dated St. Simons Island, June 16, 1863,
regarding orders to Beaufort and Florida, and a raid along the way; dated Steamer Ben DeFord, Thursday, June 18, 1863, regarding
orders to go to "the Camp of the 2nd S. C. and report to Montgomery with a hundred & fifty men"; dated St. Helena, July 7,
1863, regarding Pulaski, "Morris I," and diminishing officers; dated St. Helena, July 8, 1863, regarding the expedition to
Darien.
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ms3507 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Marcus J. Helms Civil War papers
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Helms, Marcus J. |
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Dates: |
1861-1864 |
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The collection consists of five complete Civil War letters from Marcus J. Helms to his family from November 11, 1861-January
20, 1864. Helms write about cold and rainy weather, rumors and battling. Correspondences are from Occoquan Town, Richmond,
and Danville, Virginia, and James Island, South Carolina. The collection also includes three partial letters, and a "Descriptive
list Pay and Clothing Account of Private M. J. Helms," dated April 16, 1864.
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ms3584 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Francis Wilkinson Pickens letter to Joseph E. Brown
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Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869 |
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1861 May 14 |
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A letter from Francis Wilkinson Pickens to Joseph E. Brown thanking him for lending gunpowder to South Carolina at an important
time. He refers to January 1861, when his artillery batteries in Charleston fired upon a federal ship sent to reinforce troops
at Fort Sumter.
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ms3603 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Private R.F. Crutchfield letter
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Crutchfield, R.F. |
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1864 |
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This collection contains one letter from R.F. Crutchfield to his brother and sister written from Proctor's Pointe, South Carolina
in April of 1864. The letter describes the dire situation for provisions in camp, as well as possible desertions.
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ms4137 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Daniel M. Reed letters to Mary K. Bull
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Reed, Daniel M., -1862 |
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Dates: |
1861-1862 |
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The collection consists of seven letters written by Daniel M. Reed to Mary K. Bull from Beaufort, South Carolina about guarding
the ferry, picket duty at Seabrook Island, war news the soldiers hear, battle, plans to go out west after the war, and his
determination to never take the oath of allegiance if captured.
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ms3434 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Abram Rinker diaries
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Rinker, Abram |
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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.
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ms391 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Labor ledger of the 1st Division Quartermaster, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment
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Hargrett Library |
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Dates: |
1864 December |
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This collection contains a ledger of laborers hired to work for the 1st Division Quartermasters, compiled by Captain Keating
Simons, Jr. serving as Acting Commisary General of Subsistence. Names, occupations, compensation and pay are noted. Included
are Federal prisoners who have taken the oath, named as George Holland, John Smith, James Redmond, Dominick Kelly; and Freedmen
named Richmond, Zachariah, Ezekiel, and James. Enslaved people are listed as well as their owners, including Julius, cattle
driver (E.C. Keckerly); Daniel, butcher (D.H. Silcox); George, cooper (K.L. Simons), Paul, cattle boy (Mrs. Gadsden); Joe,
laborer (Mrs. Mays); Aaron, laborer (Joshua Ward); Dock, laborer (Mrs. McPherson); Ben, butcher (J.W. Harrison); Robert, butcher
(W.L. Webb); and Porter, laborer (J.A. Enslow).
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ms4445 |
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Hargrett Library |
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George A. Cunningham family papers
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Cunningham family |
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Dates: |
1849-1874 |
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The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between George A. Cunningham and his wife Mary (Mollie), documenting
Cunningham's service with Company K of the 3rd Regiment Georgia State Reserves in South Carolina and Georgia including information
on the battles at Broxton's Bridge and River's Bridge (S.C.), casualties, troop movements, and the evacuation of Savannah
(Ga.). They also discuss his participation in the fighting in Macon, Camp Lawton, Milledgeville and Augusta and in South Carolina
from Coosahatchee, Broxton's Bridge, all in the period of 1862 to 1865. There is discussion of health problems, money, the
fighting, the supplies he sends to his family and what crops she should plant. Mollie's letters discuss activities of the
Confederate Government, Union attacks on civilians, and Sherman's march through Georgia. The collection also contains a few
letters from Mollie's brother J.M. Bullard discussing farming, family news, and disease. Eleven letters from 1874 are to George
Ernest Cunningham while he was a student at the University of Georgia. Other items in the collection are photographs of Mary
A. E. Johnson Cunningham and George Cunningham, reproduced from the included tin-type; a state of Georgia 25 cent note; a
33-page soft-bound book Address Delivered at the Unveiling of Confederate Monument, Thomaston, GA, May 1909 with Upson County
rosters of soldiers. One item, a CSA circular was removed and catalogued as Confederate Imprint CR 1225.
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ms2679 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Ella May Thornton collection of Henry Wemyss Feilden papers
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Thornton, Ella May, 1885- |
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Dates: |
1937-1958 |
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The collection consists of typewritten correspondences between Ella May Thornton, Mrs. Winifred Feilden, and others, regarding
the life and military career of Henry Wemyss Feilden for a possible publication. Also included in the collection are photocopies
of two typescript copies of writings: A Noble Englishman... by A. Trevor Battye, which recounts Feilden's participation with
the 42nd Highlanders, the Punjab Regiment in China; Chapter 2: The Civil War in Americ, which recounts Feilden's service in
the army of the Confederate States of American, serving under Generals G. T. Beauregard and Samuel Jones, mostly in Charleston,
South Carolina.
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ms340 |
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Hargrett Library |
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George M. Hanvey papers
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Hanvey, George M. |
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Dates: |
1858-1865, 1880-1889 |
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The collection consists of papers of George M. Hanvey. Papers from 1858-1865 relate to Hanvey's service as captain of the
Newnan Guards, later known as Company A of the 1st Georgia Infantry Regiment, including letters regarding its organization;
a letter to South Carolina Governor G. W. Gist offering their services should South Carolina secede; a note from Governor
Joseph E. Brown instructing Hanvey to rendezvous at Macon, Georgia on March 20, 1861; a letter to General Braxton Bragg desiring
to attach his company to the Artillery at Warrington, Florida; a muster roll of the Newnan Guards; a circular from Harvey
to W.L. Beadle regarding the bombardment of Ft. Sumter; and Harvey's oath of allegiance.
Papers dating 1880-1889 contain letters with reminiscences of company members to be read at the reunion of the Newnan Guards.
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ms494 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Franklin M. Fleming letters
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Fleming, Franklin M., -1863 |
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Dates: |
1861-1864 |
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The collection consists of correspondence from Franklin M. Fleming to his wife, Lizzie in Marion County, Georgia, while he
served with the 46th Georgia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The letters are almost entirely from camps located near
Charleston, South Carolina with some from Camp Cobb at Wilmington, North Carolina. After Fleming's death, his brother D.G.
Fleming with Company G of the 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment, wrote Lizzie from near Richmond, Virginia from March-October
1864.
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ms2227 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Peninah W. Thomas family papers
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Clinch, Batavia Thomas |
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Dates: |
1821-1959 |
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The collection consists of papers of Peninah W. Thomas and the Thomas family of Athens (Ga.) from 1821-1959. The papers include
correspondence, bills and receipts, account books, legal documents, and sermons (1890s) written by Robert Toombs DuBose.
The bills and receipts (1821-1910) contain several receipts for wages paid by Peninah W. Thomas to freedmen. The account
books (1834-1845) contain bank accounts of Stevens Thomas and lists of accounts and purchases.
The correspondence includes letters (1838-1870) between Peninah W. Thomas and her daughters Ella (Hull), Batavia (Clinch),
and Mary (Saffold). The letters mainly contain news of family or friends and social events, but of particular interest are
letters from Batavia living in Connecticut during the Civil War. The letters discuss the fall of Ft. Sumter and northerners'
inability to understand southern attitudes. Also included are letters from Thomas Reynolds and John Shannon discussing plantation
management, the cotton market, and other details of Thomas' business interests. From 1870-1941 letters are between Jennie
Stovall (DuBose) and Robert Toombs DuBose, mostly personal but also containing some information on Georgia land sales, his
ministry, and service in the Georgia House of Representatives.
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ms1738 |
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Baber-Blackshear family papers
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Baber-Blackshear family |
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Dates: |
1796-1939 |
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The collection consists of the papers of the Baber, Blackshear, and Baber-Blackshear families from 1796-1939 and includes
correspondence, journals, ledgers, news clippings, invitations, programs, speeches, and newspapers. The early part of the
collection relates to Dr. Ambrose Baber and contains information on the 1802 William Hunter-David Mitchell duel (Savannah,
Ga.); Baber's term as Charge'd Affaires to Sardinia, including correspondence from John MacPherson Berrien (1842-1844); and
the establishment of the Montpelier Institute in Monroe County, Georgia.
The bulk of the collection falls after 1846. It contains correspondence and journals of George Francis Burleigh Baber during
his naval service on the John Adams, Germantown, Dale, and Porpoise. Also included is Civil War correspondence consisting
of letters from Joseph William Blackshear of Jackson's Artillery from Camp Brown, St. Simons Island, Georgia, as well as George
Dunbar Sweet Smith, who served in South Carolina and Virginia. The remainder of the collection consists of personal correspondence
between Marion and William Blackshear; their children Ella, Paul, Birdie, and Minnie Baber-Blackshear; relatives; and friends.
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ms11 |
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Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. family papers
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Jones family |
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circa 1749-1930 |
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The collection consists of papers of the Rev. Charles Colcock Jones family of Liberty County, Georgia from ca. 1749-1909.
The early letters (1850-1861) are between Charles Colcock Jones and Mary Jones in Liberty County, Georgia and their son, Charles
Jr., while at school in Princeton and Harvard and later in Savannah (Ga.) where he set up his law practice. The letters discuss
social and family life, plantation life, politics and government, religious philosophies, and events leading up to the Civil
War. From 1861-1865, Charles Jr.'s letters chronicle his involvement as an officer in the Chatham Artillery stationed along
the Georgia coast near Savannah, then Charleston and James Island (S.C.), and Jacksonville (Fla.). After the war, the personal
correspondence is mainly between Charles Jr., his mother Mary Jones, his wife Eva Eve Jones, and his brother Joseph Jones.
There is also a smattering of correspondence regarding his law practice.
The collection also contains two volumes of letters Eva Eve Jones wrote to family describing her travels through Europe in
1879, manuscripts of Charles Jr.'s writings on Georgia history, Charles Jr.'s speeches including an 1861 speech to the Chatham
Artillery, and addresses (1886-1892) he gave before the Confederate Survivors Association. Also included is a copy of the
original manuscript for William Bartram's book Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians attributed to Ephraim G. Sqier
(1821-1888). The manuscript contains tracings of Bartram's drawing of prehistoric mounds, Creek towns, and Cherokee and Creek
structures not found in the published work.
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ms215 |
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