Scope and Contents

The collection includes letters by John T. Burns, 1858 - 1863 and records of his wife's family: Jeptha V. Harris correspondence, early legal documents, and letters among Mrs. Burns, her sister, Sallie, and her daughter, Martha, which document the disintegration of the family after the Civil War. Records contain additional Johnstone, Dickson, and Sanders family information, names of slaves in early records, and many graphics.

Scope and Contents Civil War letters from the Prescott brothers, Benjamin L. and George M., who served in the 20th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Company K, and the 25th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Company G, respectively, to their sisters, Mary Anna Prescott Green and Martha O. Prescott Jones. Comments on General Joseph Johnson's campaign in Georgia, 1864. Letters by the sisters in Screven and Laurens Counties, Georgia, discuss brother Homer's death, family relations, religious affairs, and medical services....

Scope and Contents The collection contains a large number of Civil War letters sent to Mollie Jones by many different male relatives and friends serving in the Confederacy. There are also several detailed letters (1866? - 1870) to Mollie from her sister Hannah (Nettie) V. Jones Rembert who lived in Wayne County, Georgia. Another well-documented era is the 1890s when the Roane sons were seeking their fortunes in Atlanta by shipping produce from Rabun County, Georgia, and establishing small businesses, such as...