ALsS, 1871-1887, Greenville, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones.

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ALsS, 1871-1887, Greenville, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones.

The first letter, 19 June 1871, is a summary of Ferguson's career in the Confederate Cavalry. The second, 9 April 1887, expresses his regret at being unable to attend a Memorial Day celebration of the Confederate Survivors Association.

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Ferguson, Samuel Wragg, 1834-1917

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Brigadier General, C.S.A., from Greenville (Greenville Co.), Miss. From the description of Papers, 1863-1948. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19647017 Confederate Army officer who was with General Louis T. Wigfall's battalion on the day of the attack on Fort Sumter. From the description of Papers, 1964. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 26067606 Samuel Wragg Ferguson graduated from West Point in 1857 and rose to the rank of brig...

Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893

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"Known as the "Macaulay of the South," Charles C. Jones Jr. was the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century. Also a noted autograph and manuscript collector and an accomplished amateur archaeologist, Jones in later years became a prominent memorialist of the Lost Cause and critic of the New South." - "Charles C. Jones Jr." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved August 21, 2008) From the description of Charles Colcock Jones letters, 1866-1...

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Confederate Survivors Association

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"The Confederate Survivors Association of Augusta, Georgia, was regularly organized on May 3, 1878 but had its beginning in an older organization known as the Cavalry Survivor=s Association, Augusta, Georgia, in 1866. This may have been one of the earliest Confederate veterans organizations. Captain William B. Young was the president of the Cavalry Survivors Association for twelve years until merged with the Confederate Survivors Association in 1878. The Confederate Survivors Association was a b...