Adger family scrapbook, 1823-1866

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Adger family scrapbook, 1823-1866

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, ca. 1823-1866, re antebellum news, coverage of secession, the Civil War, the burning of Columbia, S.C., and the beginning of Reconstruction as reported by various newspapers. Other topics include an account of an 1827 visit to famous water falls in Georgia at Toccoa and Tallulah Gorge [Habersham and Rabun counties, Ga.]; international events, such as a description of London's Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition of 1851; and the capture of Jefferson Davis, Reconstruction, and a brief news item with tables comparing relative values of Confederate currencies in Virginia and Georgia over course of Civil War, published, 29 Nov. 1865, in a Charleston, S.C., newspaper.

1 v. ; 42 cm.

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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...

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