The "Autobiography of Reverend William R. Talley," a south Georgia Methodist clergyman, was written in 1925 but gives family information from the 1700s up to 1947 when Eunice Talley Watkins added some notes to her father's history. Much of the memoir covers William's years in the Civil War, 14th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery. Although the story is primarily a Talley Family history, information concerning race relations, economics, and agriculture after the war is included.