Abstract 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), businessman, 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...

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

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This collection is comprised of a single membership card of the Monumental Association of Augusta, Ga, which according to the card, confers to the holder a share in the property of the monument for the confederate dead of Georgia. On the back of the card are the following hand written notes: "James M. Smythe, slate agent, Augusta Ga Spril 1st, 1873. Received one dollar for one fifth of ticket no 47519." Signed, "Daniel C. Rheney, Burke County Ga."

Scope and Contents This collection includes copies of the Southern Republic Newspaper, as well as the Tri-Weekly constituionalist. The papers cover news and commentary from all parts of the Confederate States of America. This is a good source for local advertisements. No information can be found for the total run dates of this title, a single December 19, 1860 issue can be found in the University of Georgia Libraries held in microfilm; the same edition is held at the Duke University Libraries. This collection...

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A ledger containing petitions to the government of the Confederate States of America for compensation for contracted or commandeered slaves

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This collection consist of records of Chapter No. 22 (Augusta, GA) of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The records include minutes, scrapbooks containing mostly newspaper clippings, and membership applications for Chapter 22, Children of the Confederacy.