Reese Library Special Collections: Civil War: Manuscript materials

 

The following is a list of manuscript collections held by Reese Library Special Collections, which are related to the history of Georgia during the Civil War. These unpublished collections include many primary source materials. Primary sources are generally original documents created at the time being studied, whereas secondary sources (like books), were written later, and reflect upon a given time period or event.                                                                                                                                                                                              

 

MSS 081: Civil War clippings

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Newspaper clippings, lists of scholars, and tuition payments

 

MSS 090: Civil War rosters, 1860-1890

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Civil War rosters dated between 1860-1890.

 

MSS 006: Miscellaneous legal papers, 1732-1922

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Collection includes: slave bills of sale, Georgia land deeds; icluding Cherokee, Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia, Greene, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Burke, Screven, Washington, and Early Counties, and the cities of Augusta, and Savannah, South Carolina land deeds; including Edgefield, Granville, Effingham, Barnwell, Aiken Counties, Beech Island and Newberry District, Georgia Legal Papers, South Carolina Legal Papers, Confederate and Military Papers

 

MSS 025: Cumming family correspondence, 1794-1954

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Original letters, beginning with business letters to Thomas Cumming, first intendant (mayor) of Augusta, letters from his children through several generations. There is a large group of letters from Julien Cumming from a prison camp during the Civil War. Julien later died there. Thomas Cumming (1765-1834), bussinessman, married Anne Clay (1767-1849), resided in Augusta, Georgia and had eight children. Their children included Joseph (1790-1846) and Henry Harford (1799-1866) who married Julia A. Bryan(1803-1864), and Joseph Bryan (1836-1922) who all served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

 

MSS 104: Joseph B. Cumming correspondence, 1978-1983

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Correspondence of Joseph B. Cumming, most pertaining to the publication of "A Northern Daughter and a Southern Wife: the Civil War Reminiscences of Kathering A. Cumming, 1860-1865."

 

MSS 204: Second Woodrow Wilson Symposium lecture notes, -1993

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Lecture notes on the Augusta white, elite families during the American Civil War. Examples used were the Woodrow-Wilson, Moragne-Fleming, and Clanton-Thomas families. Research bibliography included.

 

MSS 217: E.W. Herman diary, July 22, 1861 to July 31, 1864

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Civil war diary of E.W. Herman

 

MSS 250: Beauregard Manassass Quick-Step sheet music, 1861

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Wartime Confederate sheet music/"The Beauregard Manassass Quick-Step!"

 

MSS 347: Harvey Reynolds papers, ca. 1940-1967

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World War II and Augusta Arsenal material

 

MSS 389: Herman and Sheehan family genealogies

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This collection is comprised of the two family genealogies written by J. Douglas Herman regarding the history of the Herman and Sheehan branches of his family. The genealogies describe not only the family histories, but also speak to the Catholic Irish and German communities in Augusta, Georgia during the 19th and 20th centuries. Also included in the collection is E.W. Herman's civil war diary.

 

MSS 230: Ruby M.  McCrary Pfadenhauer papers, 1808-2002

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This collection is comprised of correspondence, reports,, newspaper clippings, publications, and photographs. The collection includes both materials related to the life and genealogy of Ruby McCrary Pfadenhauer, as well as historic records of the Augusta Arsenal from the 19th century through the mid 20th century.

 

MSS 108: General Marcellus A Stovall papers, 1870s-1930s

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Documents prior to, during, and after the Civil War. This collection is composed of items related to the Civil War and Stovall's participation in the war as a Confederate officer.