Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

This collection contains three bills of sale for enslaved persons purchased and sold by Samuel Mitchell of Pike County, Georgia.

Record of Mrs. C. O. Turner's several classes of fourth and fifth grade students for a year. The register lists names, ages, class grade, attendance records, monthly grades for various subjects, and some personal notes. At the end of each class is a yearly summary.

Record of general merchandise purchased of or by Jonathan Davis for the Pine [Piney] Woods House Store. Also included is an inventory of the 1819 store stock.

Records consist of the club's original constitution, minutes of meetings, correspondence, membership lists, and documents relating to their annual fair and other activities.

Advertisement for Planters' Hotel in Columbus, Muscogee Co., GA. The facility offered supper, breakfast, and lodging for 3 dollars.

Papers include a newsclipping about Pledger Bolton "P. B." Jones; 1909 school themes by his wife, Trudie B. Jones; musical scores and lyrics written by P. B.. Also included are a 1945 aircraft certificate and a letter of condolence from Senator Talmadge to the family on Pledger's death in 1961.

This collection includes Girls' High School commencement records, 1881; newspaper articles; compositions; and an 1873 pencil sketch by Ella Powell. Also contains Dr. Powell's certificates; a reprint of his address to the Eclectic Medical Society that includes a poem, "The Old Slave's Lament;" and photostats of family Bible records.

Published minutes from the Antioch [1930, an African-American association], Alapaha River, Brushy Creek Union, Primitive Ebenezer, Euharlee, Friendship, Harmony, Little River, Marietta Old School, New Beulah, New Hope, Ocmulgee, Oconee [Old School], Pulaski, Sequachee Valley, Upatoie, and Yellow River Associations.

Account books of a country store in Putnam County, Georgia, near what is now Rock Eagle Park, citing date, name of account, goods sold, and cost.

Account books recording primarily the sale of merchandise by R.C. Fain of Talladega, Alabama. Many of the accounts are for residents of Meriwether and Troup Counties in Georgia. The 1836-1843 volume includes also 1852 accounts for Fain and Acre Blacksmith shop of Blooming Grove, possibly in Alabama.

Letter from "Camp Foster" in Cartersville, Bartow County, GA, about plans to get up a regiment and draw the officers from among their friends. This was probably the 4th Regiment Georgia Reserves, of which Saxon was elected captain in the next month, May.

Honorable discharges (copies); Statement of Service; retirement approval, 1951; and correspondence from the Coast Guard to Mrs. Bond about his illness and death.

Map of the battlefield before the Battle of Fredericksburg, Sat. Dec 13, 1862. Two pencil sketches, one of "Josh," a black soldier holding a rifle at "present arms," and the other, "Sally at the Post Office," of a young white girl.

The collection contains the register sheets of those who gave money for the book's publication, each sheet with the name and sometimes the city and occupation of the patron. This project was apparently carried out by Barr, who corresponded with the state historian about the project.

A description of a boyhood Christmas on John Porter Fort's Coolewahee Plantation in Dougherty Co., GA, written about 70 years later. The writer includes descriptions of activities by both white and black residents and visitors. Workers mentioned are: Brooks, Frances, a cook; Peter, a coachman; Fanny, a washerwoman; and her husband Snap.

Record of general merchandise sold by Henry Rhodes and Henry Rogers, citing date, goods, and cost.

The collection consists of personal and business correspondence, legal and business papers, family mementos, photographs, post cards, and newspaper clippings about this Macon County, Georgia amily and the Marshallville area.

This collection includes Franklin County, Georgia deeds (recorded and unrecorded) from an area that later became Stephens County, Georgia. The deeds are arranged by property owner and/or date and are connected with the Richard D. Yow family. Folder 7 includes mention of a slave, Harriet Edwards.

Records business transactions of 1839 - 1840 in Hall County, Georgia, with debits and credits arranged by account.

Mixed papers, receipts, and brief diary entries, including genealogical information on four generations of the Davis family. The five diaries cover weather and Robert's daily activities in 1877 - 1879, 1896, and 1899. There are also photographs of Davis and unidentified young women.

The majority of letters in this collection were written by Robert H. Couper to his parents or siblings from his Confederate units or from prison on Johnson's Island. There are two letters by his older brother, James Hamilton Couper, Jr., who was killed in November 1861 while serving as captain of Co. B, 8th Regt. GA Infantry. The two 18th century letters were written by the Rev. John Couper in Scotland.

Record of general merchandise sold in Montgomery County, Georgia, citing date, name of account, goods purchased, and cost.

This collection consists of items related to the acquitision of Sapelo Island by the state of Georgia, Richard B. Russell’s funeral, and the life of Robert S. Baker. Included are black and white and color photographic prints and negatives, newspaper articles, correspondence, and biographical information.

Letter, dated July 26, 1861, following the Battle of Manassas, from Robert North, Assistant Surgeon, 7th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, to his aunt and uncle, Frances Jane Arnold and William Buchanan North, about the death of their son, Marcus A. North, who had served in Company A. He includes a paragraph to his wife, Calista. Dr. North resigned his position in the Confederate Army the following December.

Collection includes correspondence between Peter Robertson, a captain in the 4th Regiment Georgia State Guards, to his wife, Dorinda C. Rives Robertson. Letters by her at home in Hall County, Georgia, to her husband; and by her brother, Robert William Rives, who had detail duty with the Hospital Corps in Atlanta, Georgia, because of a disability. All letters are dated April - June, and the last has been photocopied for added legibility.

This collection includes a letter from Roland S. Andrews to his mother, Mrs. Mary Cornelia Andrews, Crawfordville, Georgia, likely while he was in Milledgeville, Georgia, residing at the Central State Hospital.

The collection consists of letters, postcards, photographs, and news clippings. Most of the letters are written by Bauer to his family: his impressions of France, the people, and the government's attitude toward the war, which he personally felt could not end before 1919. He also discussed the Allies' logistical problems, mainly mud, and described life in the trenches.

A letter from Mayne to his brother, W. H. Mayne, and sister in Windsor, Walton County, Georgia, from Cobb County, Georgia, where he is living with Mr. Waddle and going to school. Most of the letter is about his religious beliefs. His name has sometimes been misread as Mayre.

Letters are from Logan E. Bleckley, Joseph E. Brown, Thomas R. R. Cobb, John B. Gordon, Henry W. Grady, Joseph H. Lumpkin, Alexander and Linton Stephens, Robert Toombs, and others of lesser note concerning politics and government, the Civil War, medicine, and their own writings. Includes a Robert E. Lee signature on a college report card and a photograph of Jefferson Davis.

Lumpkin sought help from an unknown source in becoming a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Writing from Oglethorpe County, Georgia, he described his education and legal practice, aiming to achieve his goal.

Letters to Jones' children and brother while he was stationed in Florida with the 64th Regiment Georgia Volunteers as a clerk.

The collection contains evangelistic records, family business papers, personal correspondence, and family photographs.

Letters center around the Samuel Prestly and Nancy Waits family of Oakgrove, Fulton County, Georgia, who moved to Alabama before 1860. When Prestly enlisted in the 44th Regiment Alabama Volunteers, however, Nancy and their three children moved back to Oakgrove as letters flow to and from her there. Included is a letter from Prestly's brother James W. in Dallas, Paulding County, Georgia, 1855, and an envelope to Leola V. Waits Acree, a daughter, in Hammond, Georgia.

Minutes of this Bartow County, Georgia, club.

Financial records and correspondence originating in or concerning Bibb, Chatham, Glynn, and McIntosh Counties, Georgia.

Letters, photographs, scrapbooks, genealogical correspondence and notes, legal records, pamphlets, and books that belonged to Sara Lovelace Muschel of Ware County, Georgia. Collection contains the dental diploma of her father, George R. Lovelace; a 1918 yearbook of Waycross High School; and a photographic pamphlet of Bessie Tift College, n.d.

This collection includes incoming letters from Lizzie Adams, Tifton, Georgia; M. A. Skelton, Americus, Georgia; granddaughter Lizzie, Dawson County, Georgia; and son Benton, Atlanta, Georgia.

A four-page letter from the wife of Brigadier-General Alexander R. Lawton to their friend, Brigadier-General Henry R. Jackson, about conditions in their hometown Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, during the summer of 1861. The letter mixes factual information with her feelings about her husband and other major Confederate figures.

Typed compositions on aspects of the Civil War by Mrs. Luther Isbell, which typify 1960s old guard attitudes toward the South and its history on such subjects as Confederate ships, Sherman's campaign, and prisons. Most of Mrs. Isbell's other work was microfilmed and is available in the Archives library in six separate collections under her name. See especially her "Though Deep the Waters Roll" collection.