Lt. H. C. Baldwin copybook


Descriptive Summary
Title: Lt. H. C. Baldwin copybook
Creator: Baldwin, Herbert C.
Inclusive Dates: 1866, 1897
Language(s): English
Extent: 1 folder(s)
Collection Number: ms2749
Repository: Hargrett Library

Collection Description

Historical Note

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

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.