Graves family papers, 1818-1939 (bulk 1836-1910).

Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Battalion, 2nd

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Confederate States of America. Marine Corps

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Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870

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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, lawyer, author, and college president, was born 22 September 1790, in Augusta, Georgia, and died 9 July 1870, in Oxford, Mississippi. His sketches of late eighteenth century Georgia life, GEORGIA SCENES, appeared in Georgia newspapers (1833-1836), but later writings were more political or religious. He was ordained a Methodist minister (1838) and became president of four Southern colleges: Emory College (1839-1848), Centenary College in Jackson, La. (1849), the Unive...

Graves, Henry Lewis, 1885-1958?

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Milligan, Joseph, 1807-1884

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Joseph Milligan, of Hamburg (now North Augusta), S.C., and Augusta, Ga., was a physician, druggist, natural scientist, and cotton speculator. From the description of Dr. Joseph Milligan papers, 1837-1842. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 276434895 ...

University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Graves, Iverson Dutton, 1845-1906

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Graves, William R.

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Few, Ignatius Alphonso, 1789-1845

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Graves family.

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Iverson Lea Graves (b. 1800), an early benefactor of Emory College, married Sara Ward Dutton (1834) with whom he had four children; three who lived to adulthood were Henry Lea (b. 1842), Iverson Dutton (b. 1845), and Cornelia Lansing, called "Cora" (b. 1849). The Graves family lived at Mount Pleasant, a plantation built by Soloman Graves (1766-1830), Iverson L. Graves's father, in Newton County, Georgia. Both Henry L. and Iverson D. Graves attended Emory College and served in the Confederate for...

Georgia Conference Manual Labor School.

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Graves, Henry Lea, 1842-1892

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Emory College

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Emory College was founded in 1836 by the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Early faculty members included Alexander Means, Gustavus John Orr, Osborne L. Smith, and George W. W. Stone. From the description of Emory College faculty records, 1847-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 761669346 Emory College was chartered in 1836 to the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The first librarian noted in Emory College records, in 1840, was George...

Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Johnson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1812-1880

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Herschel Vespasian Johnson was born on September 18, 1812, in Burke County. Like most of Georgia's antebellum political lights, Johnson passed through the University of Georgia, graduating in 1834. He took up the law and established prosperous practices in Augusta, Louisville, and finally Milledgeville, the state capital. Ambrose Wright, the future Confederate officer and newspaper journalist, began his study of law in Johnson's Louisville office. In 1844, the same year he moved to Milledgeville...

Confederate States of America. Navy

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Built in Philadelphia as the Habana, the CSS Sumter was originally used as a blockade runner in New Orleans. In 1861, she was purchased for use by the Confederate Government. Under the command of Raphael Semmes, she captured a number of Union flag merchant ships off the coasts of Cuba and South America, as well as other locations in the western hemisphere. When her boilers became unfit for use and repairs and supplies could not be obtained, she was sold at public auction at Gibraltar on December...

Virginia Military Institute

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On March 29, 1839 the General Aslsembly passed the final version of the act establishing a military school at the Lexington arsenal, where the students would protect the arms while pursuing educational courses. The School was named the Virginia Military Institute and is the nation's oldest state supported military college. The governor appointed nine members to the Board of Visitors to oversee the new school and they elected Claudius Crozet as president of the board and named Franci...

Graves, Iverson Lea, 1800-1864

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