Papers, 1763-1926.

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Papers, 1763-1926.

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Correspondence, journals, commonplace books, lecture notes on literature, natural philosophy, and physics, scrapbooks, addresses, autograph albums, and other papers, many dealing with the collecting of historical materials. Many letters from famous literary and civic figures are in acknowledgment of copies of Jones' books. Other subjects include Washington's Indian policy, hardships of travel to and life in California in the mid-19th century, Union volunteer generals of foreign birth, numbers of troops furnished to the U.S. Army by certain states (1861-1865), campaigns, battles, and conditions during the Civil War, manufacturing in Georgia, militia in Chatham Co., Ga., during the Revolution, slavery, and abolitionists. Includes records of the Harvard Law School Moot Court, and the manuscript texts of Jones' The history of Georgia (1883) and of The history of the Church of God (1867) by Jones' father, Charles Colcock Jones.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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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...