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Photocopied and typescript letters (1859) from Mary A. George to her children, Mary J. and Charles H., during a trip north with her husband; letters (1861-64) from Charles H. George to his sisters, Mary J. and Mattie; and letters (1865-66) from Charles H. George's widow, Flora, to Mattie George.

Scope and Contents Letter, dated 3 Dec. 1864, from Jeffares to his wife in Georgia. This is a photocopy.Transcription of letter: Fields Hospital Dec. The 3rd 1864 Mrs. B.R.H. Jeffares My Dear loving wife with the greatest of pleasure I seat myself this morning to pencil you a few lines. Those lines leave me in terrible health hoping those lines may find you & Wiley & the connection in the best of health Sade I have no news to write you but...

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Five letters written by Pvt. Madison Kilpatrick to his family who lived on a farm near Godfrey, Putnam Co., Georgia. Photocopies of manuscripts and typescripts provided by Georgia State Archives, February 1965.

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This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, military documents, certificates, financial documents, rosters, and miscellaneous items from Lane's military and civilian activities, memoirs as well as the lives of various family members. The collection also includes drawings from Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama civil engineering students from the 1870s.

Scope and Contents The core of this collection is a set of forty-six letters written by various members of the Pearson and Johnson families to each other during the Civil War years and the years immediately before and after the war. Included are love letters between Jefferson Lafayette Pearson and Mary Abigail Johnson, letters from the soldiers in the family to their brothers and sisters and in-laws, and letters between the women in the two families on the home front during the war. Topics covered include...

Content Description This collections consists of two accessions. Accession 98-078 contains correspondence, sermons, speeches, photographs, pamphlets, family recollections, personal writings, newspaper clippings, published materials, one artifact, and other materials. These materials arranged in four series: Annie Douglas Mitchell, Rush Family, Nimrod D. Denson Jr, and Miscellaneous. Accession 96-35 contains essays, a poem, correspondence between John W. Rush and his wife, Octavia O. Rush (including letters from...

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence (1860-1891) and financial records (1836-1891) of John Horry Dent; plantation journals (1876-1891) in which Dent recorded weather conditions and daily activities; biographical information on Wellborn's maternal great-grandfather, Commodore John Herbert Dent, who served aboard the U.S.S. Constitution. Correspondence...

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence (1854-1904), including letters (1861-1864) to William Wilmot Wright from his brother George Washington Wright, a lieutenant in the 12th Alabama Infantry; military passes, exemptions and applications (1863-1865); papers (1860-1871) concerning Macon County schools; land deeds (1825-1905); tax receipts (1847-1913); business papers (1840-1913), including account books, contracts, correspondence, promissory notes, wills and estate papers, and receipts;...

Scope and Contents Letters to Wright, including one from William A. Burney in Limestone County, Texas (1860), one from his son, C.G. Wright, a Confederate soldier stationed at Camp Skidaway, Georgia (1861), and one from a Confederate soldier stationed near Yorktown, Virginia (1862).Letters are duplicates.Calendar:William A. Burney, Limestone Co., Texas, to "Dear Friend," [April] 9, 1860.W. J. C. Vaughan and Co., Montgomery, Alabama, to Willis Wright, February 20,...