Christopher Cowan Anderson Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MU-PP-0001

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Folders 1-13 contain approximately 60 letters from both C. C. Anderson and Henry Bunn while serving the Confederate Army, as well as between other members of the Bunn family during the Civil War.

Folder 14 contains a White and Lord Leger No. 1, kept with only a few exceptions by Christopher Cowan Anderson, that originally had a complete set of alphabetical pages and about 370 numbered pages. Many pages were cut or torn from the ledger and are missing. The lower portions of a number of other pages were cut or torn from the ledger, as well. The ledger contains the following: 1) White and Lord accounts related to farming equipment with an index to buyers’ names in the alphabetical pages at the front (pp. 1-200); 2) County Court Claims for Collection (pp. 218-230) with an alphabetical index (pp. 186-197); 3) Civil War journal (alphabetical pages at front, pp. 1-155, 327); 4) status of soldiers in his company (pp. 115-118, 328, 331-332, 335); 5) List of Company I 6th Georgia Regiment, 1861-1865 (pp. 328, 331-332, 335); 6) List of battles in which Anderson, presumably, was engaged (p. 319); 7) Court records (pp. 183-185, 217-240, 325-326, 331, 336, 343-348, 351-354); 8) Entry from November 12, 1877, related to a court hearing in Pulaski County (p. 119); 9) French and English translation of a letter about Bulgarian education, July 4, 1880 (pp. 121-122); 10) Land surveys and astrology measurements (p. 125-132); 11) Essays on women, the Negro race, and a judge (pp 207-208, 211-216, 321, 323, and 325).

Folder 16 contains the hand-tinted photograph of E. H. [?] Martin, November 20, 1862, which was discovered in the home of the donor of this collection. Apparently he is unrelated to the Anderson family. Martin was a 5th Sergeant September 19, 1861; elected Jr. 2nd Lieutenant February 28, 1862; 1st Lieutenant in 1862; Captain June 10, 1863. He “[s]urrendered himself to Federal Troops, while home in Georgia on leave of absence, and at once made application to Gen. Cox to take the oath; was sent to Johnson’s Island, O., where he was released May 13, 1865” (The Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia volume 6, page 150).

Dates

Creation: 1860 - 1880
Creation: Majority of material found within 1861 - 1863

Rights Statement

To quote in print, or otherwise reproduce in whole or in part in any publication, including on the World Wide Web, any material from this collection, the researcher must obtain permission from (1) the owner of the physical property and (2) the holder of the copyright. Persons wishing to quote from this collection should consult the reference archivist to determine copyright holders for information in this collection. Reproduction of any item must contain the complete citation to the original.

Biographical / Historical

Christopher Cowan (Kit) Anderson was born January 7, 1843, near Jeffersonville, GA, in Twiggs County. He entered Mercer University at Penfield in 1859, but left his senior year to join the 6th Georgia Regiment of the Confederate Army. Near the end of the war he served in the cavalry branch of General Robert E. Lee’s army, and until his death he maintained that he had never surrendered to the Federal forces at the war’s end.

Extent

1 Linear Feet : Approximately 60 Civil War-era letters, one large accounting ledger, one oval hand-tinted photograph, and other foldered papers in one metal edge flip-top box