Claudius Charles Wilson papers

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Claudius Charles Wilson papers

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The correspondence in this collection, most of it from Claudius Charles Wilson to his wife Kate, describe various camps and battlefronts during the Civil War. Letters were sent from various locations including Savannah, Georgia, area camps at Fort Pulaski, Causton's Bluff, Thunderbolt, Camp Mercer (Tybee Island), and Camp Wilson; Camp Gist, Camp Holmes, and Camp Clingman near Wilmington, North Carolina; and Charleston, South Carolina. Other locations include Chickamauga River, Lookout Mountain, the front lines of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and various places in Mississippi. Other papers include Confederate States Army correspondence, orders, personnel and supply records, and evacuation and return documents. Included are four Confederate imprints, one of them unique. There are also deeds to property, insurance policies on dwellings, bills of sale for slaves, and a few papers concerning Wilson's legal affairs.

1 half box, 1 oversize folder (.55 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6904547

Georgia Historical Society

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Wilson, Claudius Charles, 1831-1863

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Claudius C. Wilson (1831-1863) was born in Effingham County, Georgia, and educated at Emory College in Oxford, Georgia. He read law and was admitted to the bar in Savannah in 1852, and practiced in partnership with Rufus E. Lester under the firm name of Wilson and Lester. In 1859, he was elected Solicitor General of the Eastern Circuit (U. S. Court), but resigned in 1860. He entered the Confederate States Army as Captain of Company I, 25th Regiment. Georgia Infantry Volunteers, and was commissio...