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Lt. H. C. Baldwin copybook

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.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Lt. H. C. Baldwin copybook, ms2749, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2016.


Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Copybooks -- Georgia.
Correspondence
Enslaved persons -- Georgia
Ledgers (account books)
Slavery -- Georgia -- History.
United States Mint
United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 13th
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 
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11Copybook