Eliza Frances Bradley Kenney family letters


Descriptive Summary
Title: Eliza Frances Bradley Kenney family letters
Creator: Bradley family
Inclusive Dates: 1853-1881
Language(s): English
Extent: 0.25 Linear Feet 1 box
Collection Number: ms3343
Repository: Hargrett Library

Collection Description

Historical Note

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.

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.