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Christopher Cowan Anderson Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MU-PP-0001
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...
Dates:
1860 - 1880; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1863
Donald M. Bain Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0004
Scope and Contents
The Donald M. Bain collection contains a scrapbook about Donald M. Bain’s life as a Scottish American who served in the Confederate Army. The volume is hardback and measures 8” x 10” x 2.25”.
Dates:
1879-1923
Henry McCleskey Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0076
Scope and Contents
The Henry McCleskey collection contains a scrapbook. The book has “Newspaper Clippings” printed on the spine. “McCleskey” is on the front cover. This collection can be found on shelf 10/E/01 in the Personal Papers collection of the Mercer University Archives and Digital Initiatives.
Dates:
1865
Ivy Walker Duggan Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0032
Scope and Contents
The Ivy Walker Duggan Papers contains four volumes covering the time period of 1828-1869: two volumes of printed Baptist Association minutes, one volume of printed letters from Duggan at battle fronts (1861-1865), and one journal by George R. Barker (1869). Mercer received the collection in 1992 through Furman B. Lewis from the estate of Mrs. Walter B. Hill, the daughter of Ivy W. Duggan. The collection was cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access...
Dates:
1828-1881
Joseph Perryman Carson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0016
Scope and Contents
Letters of Joseph Perryman Carson to his family while serving in the Confederate Army in Virginia, 1864-1865, and other miscellaneous family letters.
Dates:
1864 - 1901
Paul Mercer Cousins Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0023
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 24 scattered issues of "The Countryman" (1862-1865), which was a pro-Confederate newspaper published weekly by J. A. Turner at Turnwold Plantation in Putnam County, Georgia. In addition to being a newspaper published by a plantation during the American Civil War, the newspaper is notable for its role in launching the journalistic career of Joel Chandler Harris. Within the Paul Mercer Cousins Collection, "The Countryman" serial is separated by year and issue. The...
Dates:
1850-1974