G.T. Beauregard papers, 1861-1893.

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G.T. Beauregard papers, 1861-1893.

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The collection contains papers relating to Beauregard's Civil War career, including correspondence, notes to and from various troop commands, reports on the return of troops after 1st Battle of Bull Run, and 5 poems dedicated to the general; together with family and personal papers, consisting mainly of letters (1888-1893) from Beauregard to his granddaughter, Lauré Beauregard Larendon, but also including correspondence of his brother, Toutant Beauregard, his daughter, Julia Beauregard Larendon, his son-in-law, Charles A. Larendon, as well as Elizabeth Washington Foote Cheves, Annie Chambers Ketchum, Joseph Surand, and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson. Civil War correspondents include Braxton Bragg, Joseph Emerson Brown, Jefferson Davis, Quincy Adams Gilmore, Charles Colcock Jones, Thomas Jordan, Joseph Brevard Kershaw, William Whann Mackall, Julian Keith Sass, and Mary Eliza Perine Tucker.

.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

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P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general from New Orleans, Louisiana. The Aztec Club was organized in 1847 as a fraternal society for officers serving under General Winfield Scott's command in Mexico City. Several officers later became major Civil War leaders. From the description of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard letter, 1892 Dec. 29. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70294149 Former Confederate general and resident of New Orleans. At the t...

Gillmore, Quincy Adams, 1825-1888

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Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894

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Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), governor of Georgia and U.S. senator. From the description of Joseph E. Brown papers, 1858-1930 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 45894384 U.S. senator and governor of Georgia. From the description of Joseph E. Brown correspondence, 1862-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451938 Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator. From the description of letter signed : Atlanta, unaddressed, 1877 Apr. 7. (Unknown). Worl...

Confederate states of America. Army

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Ketchum, Annie Chambers, 1824-1904

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Larendon, Charles A.

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Jordan, Thomas, 1819-1895

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Confederate general, chief of staff to G.T. Beauregard. From the description of Memorandum, [1874?]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122541762 Confederate general. From the description of ALS, 1882 Sept. 23, New York, N.Y., to G.T. Beauregard. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122475273 From the description of ALS : Memphis, to G.T. Beauregard, 1866 Oct. 26. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 1...

Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine, 1838-

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Beauregard, Toutant

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Cheves, Elizabeth Washington Foote

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Beauregard family.

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Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909

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Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876

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Surand, Joseph

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Larendon, Lauré Beauregard

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Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, 1822-1894

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Army officer and jurist; son of Col. John Kershaw (1765-1829) and Harrietta Du Bose Kershaw; grandson of Joseph Kershaw (ca. 1727-1791); husband of Lucretia Douglas; commanded Palmetto Regt., 1843, in Mexican War; member of: S.C. legislature, 1852-1856, and S.C. Secession Convention, 1860; promoted to Major General, Confederate Army, by 1864; president of S.C. Senate, 1865. From the description of Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers, 1766-1931 (bulk, 1766-1888). (University of South Caroli...

Mackall, William Whann, 1818-1891

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Larendon, Julia Beauregard

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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...

Sass, Julian Keith, 1813-1865

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