Three handwritten and typed extracts of "Memorandum of My Life" by a man whose life and work included regional and national interests. A New Englander by birth, he became a loyal Southerner, embracing Secession only when he felt compromise had become impossible with the North. During the Civil War, he served the Confederacy as an importer and blockade runner. After a decade in New York City (where he preached to a congregation of southern African Americans), Root returned to Atlanta and served as a Spelman College trustee, the 1881 Cotton Exposition director, and the park commissioner who built Grant Park with a gift of land from his friend, Lemuel Grant.