Scope and Contents

This collection includes photocopies and transcriptions of five letters written by Pvt. Madison Kilpatrick to his family who lived on a farm near Godfrey, Putnam Co., Georgia. The photocopies of the manuscripts and typescripts were provided by Georgia State Archives, February 1965. Also included is the correspondece between Mr. Norman B. Cranford and the Georgia Department of Archives and History regarding the letters from Kilpatrick.

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...